immemorially

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English

Etymology

From immemorial +‎ -ly.

Adverb

immemorially (comparative more immemorially, superlative most immemorially)

  1. In an immemorial manner, from time immemorial.
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 58”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
      [] by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters []
    • 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Book Six, Chapter 2:
      Yet, O reader, the brave woman accepted the lot, and took up the cry which had been its sign immemorially, and which thenceforward was to be her salutation without change—“Unclean, unclean!”
    • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 2:
      [] as for barbers, he had never liked those who cut his own hair; he thought too how it would disgust Pundit Jairam to learn that his former pupil had taken up barbering, a profession immemorially low.