inconsumably
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From inconsumable + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]inconsumably (comparative more inconsumably, superlative most inconsumably)
- Such that it cannot be consumed or used up; inexhaustibly.
- 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Triumph of Life:
- All flowers in field or forest which unclose
Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of day,
Swinging their censers in the element,
With orient incense lit by the new ray
Burned slow and inconsumably, and sent
Their odorous sighs up to the smiling air […]