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indispensably en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English indispensable Middle English -ly English -ly English indispensably From indispensable + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In an indispensable manner; such that one cannot do without it.
    • He was not of the Number of thoſe hot-headed, fiery Princes who are guided merely by the Impulſes and Motions of a temerarious Valour which is inſenſible to all Danger, and who precipitate themselves headlong into ſuch intricate and perplexing Non-pluſes, that they are indiſpenſably oblig’d to ſtop ſhort at the Beginning, or at leaſt in the Middle, of their Courſe. 1724, The History of the Revolutions in Spain, volume II, part I (Containing, the Revolutions among the Moors, from 716 to the Taking of the City of Granada in 1492, Which Put an End to the Moorish Empire in Spain. With the Revolutions in Navarre, from 733 to 1521.), London: […] W. Mears, […]; and T. Edlin, […], page 228:
    • We ſhould ſtudy to be skilful Confeſſaries, as well as good Preachers, to know when and how to uſe the Power of remitting and retaining Sins, of bleſſing the People, and of adminiſtring the Chriſtian Sacrifices aright. Theſe things God expects indiſpenſably from us, as well as Preaching, and of which let me ſay to thoſe, who as it were devote themſelves to the one, and neglect the other, theſe things ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone, That of the two, requires our Care at leaſt as much as this, tho’ it is now ſo much diſſuſed, chiefly I fear by the want of Pœnitential Canons, which every Biſhop of any Country may ſupply in his own Dioceſs, till the whole College can make pœnitential Canons for the Dioceſſes of the National Church. 1707, George Hickes, Two Treatiſes, One of the Chriſtian Prieſthood, The Other of the Dignity of the Epiſcopal Order, preface, pages ccxl-ccxli:
    • He adds, " It is well known that the anatomisers of plants and animals, in order to investigate their structure, and to obtain an insight into the grounds why and to what end such parts, why such a situation and connexion of the parts, and exactly such an internal form, come before them, assume, as indispensably necessary, this maxim, that in such a creature nothing is in vain, and proceed upon it in the same way in which in general natural philosophy we proceed upon the principle that nothing happens by chance..." 1845, William Whewell, Indications of the Creator:

Forms

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more indispensably Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most indispensably Degree=Sup lexicographic

Translations (1)

bg непременно (In an indispensable manner)