Inconsumably

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Such that it cannot be consumed or used up; inexhaustibly.

    "All flowers in field or forest which unclose Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of day, Swinging their censers in the element, With orient incense lit by the new ray Burned slow and inconsumably, and sent Their odorous sighs up to the smiling air […]"

Example

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"All flowers in field or forest which unclose Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of day, Swinging their censers in the element, With orient incense lit by the new ray Burned slow and inconsumably, and sent Their odorous sighs up to the smiling air […]"

Etymology

From inconsumable + -ly.

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