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insuperably, adv.|ɪnˈsjuːpərəblɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In an insuperable manner, or so as not to be overcome; unconquerably; insurmountably.
1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. i. 9 Some say, that he [God] decreed to predetermine men insuperably to the forbidden act. 1681Grew Museum 282 The latter, being so insuperably hard hinders the splitting of it. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 180 ⁋8 Many who toil through the intricacy of complicated systems are insuperably embarrassed with the least perplexity in common affairs. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. III. iii. v. §32. 252 From its nature it [the poem] is insuperably wearisome. 1880Watson Prince's Quest (1892) 65 An island of the middle sea In watery barriers bound insuperably. |