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Etymology

Etymology tree English indissoluble Middle English -ly English -ly English indissolubly From indissoluble + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an indissoluble manner; in a manner that is unable to be dissolved.
   • […] On they move Indissolubly firm; nor obvious hill, Nor straitening vale, nor wood, nor stream, divides Their perfect ranks; 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_VI), Book 6, lines 68-71:
   • […] the day is already commenced which is to bind us indissolubly; and when we are once united, there shall be no recurrence of these mental terrors: I guarantee that. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 25, in Jane Eyre:
   • I wouldn’t have mentioned the fellow to you at all, only it was from his lips that I first heard the name of the man who is so indissolubly connected with the memories of that time. 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
   • There [in the new heaven] shall we, indissolubly, with all the choir of heaven pass our eviternity of bliss, in lauding and praising the incomprehensibly-glorious Majesty of our Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier; in perpetual Hallelujahs to him that sits upon the throne. 1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “[The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […].] Section VIII. The Re-union of the Body to the Soul, both Glorified.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, 2nd book (Of the Souls of Men), page 484:
   • The words that were said every day to others would be said to him, in that quiet consulting room whose desk and carpet and square modern armchair would share indissolubly in the moment. 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 18, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
   • Wedlok is the laufull couple of man & wife, ordeyned indissolubly to bring forth children, & to eschew fornicacion. […] I added this terme (indissolubly) that is to saye, vndepartably or wtout breakyng, that a man shold not thinke that wedlocke ones lawfullye made can be vndone & broken […] 1538, Erasmus Sarcerius, chapter 56, in Richard Taverner, transl., Common Places of Scripture, London: John Byddell:

Forms

Synonyms

inseparably · inextricably · indivisibly

Translations (2)

fr indissolublement (in an indissoluble manner) · nl onlosmakelijk (in an indissoluble manner)