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immoderately en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English immoderatliche, inmoderately; equivalent to immoderate + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an immoderate manner.
   • 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13, From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.
   • by pursuinge wherof he imagynes he shall reape some glory to himselfe, of which he is immoderately ambitious, so that if the consultation be upon any action to be done, no man more implicitely enters into that debate, or more cheerefully resignes his owne conceptions to a joynt determination[…] 1918, Various, Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles:
   • […] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately 1676, Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso, London: Henry Herringman, act I, page 12:
   • […] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately. 1915, Emma Orczy, chapter 19, in A Bride of the Plains, New York: George H. Doran, page 174:

Forms

Translations (13)

it smodatamente (in an immoderate manner) · pl przesadnie (in an immoderate manner) · hu mértéktelenül (in an immoderate manner) · fi ylenpalttisesti (in an immoderate manner) · pl niepohamowanie (in an immoderate manner) · pl nieumiarkowanie (in an immoderate manner) · de maßlos (in an immoderate manner) · pl bez umiaru (in an immoderate manner) · fr immodérément (in an immoderate manner) · pl bez opamiętania (in an immoderate manner) · grc ἀμέτρως (in an immoderate manner) · ca immoderadament (in an immoderate manner) · pl nadmiernie (in an immoderate manner)