immemorially

English

Etymology

immemorial +‎ -ly

Adverb

immemorially (comparative more immemorially, superlative most immemorially)

1. In an immemorial manner, from time immemorial.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 58”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     […] by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters […]

   • 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ‎^[1], Book Six, Chapter 2:

     Yet, O reader, the brave woman accepted the lot, and took up the cry which had been its sign immemorially, and which thenceforward was to be her salutation without change—“Unclean, unclean!”

   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 2:

     […] as for barbers, he had never liked those who cut his own hair; he thought too how it would disgust Pundit Jairam to learn that his former pupil had taken up barbering, a profession immemorially low.