indissolubly
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indissoluble + -ly
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indissolubly (comparative more indissolubly, superlative most indissolubly)
- In an indissoluble manner; in a manner that is unable to be dissolved.
- 1538, Erasmus Sarcerius, chapter 56, in Richard Taverner, transl., Common Places of Scripture[1], London: John Byddell:
- Wedlok is the laufull couple of man & wife, ordeyned indissolubly to bring forth children, & to eschew fornicacion. […] I added this terme (indissolubly) that is to saye, vndepartably or wtout breakyng, that a man shold not thinke that wedlocke ones lawfullye made can be vndone & broken […]
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost[2], Book 6, lines 68-71:
- […] On they move
Indissolubly firm; nor obvious hill,
Nor straitening vale, nor wood, nor stream, divides
Their perfect ranks;
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 25, in Jane Eyre[3]:
- […] the day is already commenced which is to bind us indissolubly; and when we are once united, there shall be no recurrence of these mental terrors: I guarantee that.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
- I wouldn’t have mentioned the fellow to you at all, only it was from his lips that I first heard the name of the man who is so indissolubly connected with the memories of that time.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 18, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- The words that were said every day to others would be said to him, in that quiet consulting room whose desk and carpet and square modern armchair would share indissolubly in the moment.
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in an indissoluble manner
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