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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

fathomly en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From fathom + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Very deep; abyssal.
    • We know the Present ; the Past we have experienced, and are persuaded that the Future flows out from some fathomly abyss of being, of exhaustless source, itself being in its supreme sense, and beginningless in its nature. 1900, The Medical Herald, volume 19, page 27:

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fathomly en · ADV · etymology 2

Etymology

From fathom + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Profoundly; deeply.
    • A metropolitan suzerain, acclaimed to be, at once, par excellence, fathomly erudite, incomparably pious dauntingly charismatic, lustrous without pareil, admirably devout, soundly versed in lslam, remotely materialistic, flexibly oligarchic. 1988, Ahmed Beita Yusuf, Maitatsine, page 51:

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