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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

inconsumably en · ADV

Etymology

From inconsumable + -ly.

Meanings

  1. Such that it cannot be consumed or used up; inexhaustibly.
    • All flowers in field or forest which unclose Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of day, Swinging their censers in the element, With orient incense lit by the new ray Burned slow and inconsumably, and sent Their odorous sighs up to the smiling air […] 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Triumph of Life:

Forms

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more inconsumably Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most inconsumably Degree=Sup lexicographic