单词 | immortally |
释义 | immortallyadv. 1. a. In the way of immortal life or existence; endlessly, eternally, for ever. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [adverb] > immortally immortallya1529 deathlessly1828 a1529 J. Skelton Dethe Erle Northumberland 147 His right noble estate Immortally whiche is immaculate. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 272 He that weares the crowne immortally, Long gard it yours. View more context for this quotation 1760 W. Law Coll. Lett. Interesting & Important Subj. xi. 146 The first divine..Nature of Adam, which was to have been immortally Holy in Union with God, is lost. 1855 R. Browning Any Wife to Any Husband ix Therefore she is immortally my bride; Chance cannot change my love, nor time impair. b. Perpetually; without withering. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb] always fortha700 alwayeOE oeOE everOE buten endea1000 echelichec1175 till doomsdayc1175 to timea1200 perdurablyc1275 in ayea1300 without endc1330 anytimea1375 for ay and oc1374 continually1382 perpetuallyc1385 ay-forthc1390 everlastinglyc1390 perpetualc1392 eternallyc1393 endlessa1400 in (also for, to) perpetuitya1400 always?c1425 without timec1425 endlesslya1450 sempiternlyc1450 infinitivec1470 aylastinglyc1475 everlastingc1475 incessantly1481 in saecula saeculorum1481 sempiternally1509 all days1533 for altogether1542 constantly1567 interminate?1567 incorruptibly1579 perpetuously1612 in perpetuum1613 eternal1614 unterminably1631 unfadinglya1672 unendingly1674 for a constancy1710 perennially1729 tarnally1790 imperishably1795 indefectibly1837 immortally1858 fadelessly1861 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 4 Green fields—immortally green, whatever winter can do against them. 2. colloquial. To a degree beyond that of mortals; infinitely. [Compare Cicero's gaudeo immortaliter.] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > infinitely infinite1526 immortally?c1550 infinitely1584 unlimitedly1609 unboundedly1611 a worlda1616 infinitively1726 ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) 153 But King Edward, rejoysing immortally for the victory [etc.]. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. vii. 213 As he [sc. Matth. Paris] saith of Edward the first, at the newes of..his sons birth, immortalitèr gavisus, he was immortally glad. 1883 Harper's Mag. June 134/2 How immortally beautiful that girl was! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < adv.a1529 |
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