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  • adverb In a fathomless manner.

Etymologies

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fathomless +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The answer is Mark Rylance, who starred in "Boeing-Boeing" and is now giving another over-the-top performance as Valere, a fathomlessly vulgar, monstrously vain street player who has been thrust upon Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), the celebrated 17th-century playwright, and his resident drama troupe by the princess (Joanna Lumley) who is the company 's all-powerful patroness.

    Emo-cracy Comes to Broadway Terry Teachout 2010

  • Mercer also translated "Le Chevalier de Paris (Les Pommiers Doux)" as the fathomlessly sophisticated "When the World Was Young" -- than which Cole Porter has never done better.

    David Finkle: Johnny Mercer, Lyricist-Composer-Singer, at 100 2009

  • That is, when he tried to imagine electioneering, voting, and representation, he conjured up situations in which the people, manipulated by wealthy and fathomlessly cynical politicians, were repeatedly induced to act against their own interests.

    Shakespeare and the Uses of Power Greenblatt, Stephen 2007

  • It has the fathomlessly supreme method of the generation and complete stages as a unified pair, by which you cleanse away confusion through various steps.

    A Precious Garland for the Four Themes (of Gampopa) Klong-chen Rab-'byams-pa Dri-med 'od-zer 2007

  • Brown eyes met black, the former angrily determined, the latter fathomlessly dark.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • Time paced slowly toward the eternity, and space was fathomlessly black.

    The Voyage of the Space Beagle Van Vogt, A. E. 1950

  • His heart was fathomlessly deep, long acquainted with humility, patience, sacrifice.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • His heart was fathomlessly deep, long acquainted with humility, patience, sacrifice.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • As Augustus, he becomes another man altogether, almost fathomlessly wise and beneficient; a Master of Peace and Wisdom.

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

  • How high -- how immense -- how fathomlessly still it was -- how it seemed as if there could be nothing else -- that nothing else could be real!

    The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

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