fathomlessly en · ADV
Etymology
From fathomless + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In a fathomless manner, to a fathomless degree.
[…] Wani’s look was so fathomlessly interesting to him […]
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:Prior Albert. Son! you relapse into revenge, If you regret your enemy’s bloodless death. Siegendorf. His death was fathomlessly deep in blood.
1822, Lord Byron, Werner, London: John Murray, published 1823, act IV, scene 1, page 153:[…] she had had glimpses enough of the scene: of the audience of bright elderly women, with snowy hair, eurythmic movements, and finely-wrinkled over-massaged faces on which a smile of glassy benevolence sat like their rimless pince-nez. They were all inexorably earnest, aimlessly kind and fathomlessly pure […]
1927, Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep, Book I, Chapter I: