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English
Etymology
From immemorial + -ly.
Adverb
immemorially (comparative more immemorially, superlative most immemorially)
- In an immemorial manner, from time immemorial.
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.