unˈmeasurably, adv.
[un-1 11.]
† 1. Without measure or moderation; immoderately, unrestrainedly. Obs.
| a 1420 Wycliffite Bible Ecclus. xi. 10 margin, If thou suest, in sekinge richessis vnmesurably, thou schalt not take. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour 53 Other that be..enflamed unmesurably like wolues. 1542–5 Brinklow Lament. 9 b, Ye abvse your riches,..for ye spende vnmeasurably. 1561 Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 40 Eating and drinking vnmeasurably. 1631 J. Anchoran Comenius' Gate Tongues 190 To laugh aloud and vnmeasurably. 1679 Hist. Jetzer 17 He..frets and fumes unmeasurably. a 1693 Ludlow Mem. (1698) II. 624 The Court..grew unmeasurably insolent. 1722 Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. xviii. (1724) 111 Opposite parties make a merit of blackening their adversaries..undeservedly and unmeasurably. |
2. To an immeasurable extent or degree; excessively, extremely.
| 1513 Henry V (1911) 132 Famyne..vnmeasurably raigned amongest them. c 1530 Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 336 Hys spere..was so long & byg so vnmesurably, y{supt} [etc.]. 1624 Bp. Hall Peace Maker in Var. Treat. (1627) 538 Grace sensibly imperfect, sinne vnmeasurably sinfull. a 1670 Rust Disc. Truth (1682) 180 A Soul unmeasurably breathing after the Embraces of Truth. 1704 Norris Ideal World ii. xii. 510 'Tis not to be imagined..how unmeasurably the powers of that soul must needs be illuminated. a 1797 H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) I. vi. 186 He was..unmeasurably obstinate. 1828 Ld. Grenville Sink. Fund 1 Unmeasurably more beneficial to mankind, are those qualities. 1866 Airy Pop. Astron. i. 37 That the distance..is unmeasurably small, compared with the distances of the stars. |