fathomlessly

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English

Etymology

fathomless +‎ -ly

Adverb

fathomlessly (not comparable)

  1. In a fathomless manner, to a fathomless degree.
    • 1822, Lord Byron, Werner, London: John Murray, 1823, Act IV, Scene 1, p. 153,[1]
      Prior Albert. Son! you relapse into revenge,
      If you regret your enemy’s bloodless death.
      Siegendorf. His death was fathomlessly deep in blood.
    • 1927, Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep, Book I, Chapter I,[2]
      [] she had had glimpses enough of the scene: of the audience of bright elderly women, with snowy hair, eurythmic movements, and finely-wrinkled over-massaged faces on which a smile of glassy benevolence sat like their rimless pince-nez. They were all inexorably earnest, aimlessly kind and fathomlessly pure []
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 8,
      [] Wani’s look was so fathomlessly interesting to him []