fathomly
English
Etymology 1
From fathom + -ly.
Adjective
fathomly (comparative more fathomly, superlative most fathomly)
- Including a fathom; (by extension) very deep
- 1900, The Medical Herald, volume 19, page 27:
- We know the Present ; the Past we have experienced, and are persuaded that the Future flows out from some fathomly abyss of being, of exhaustless source, itself being in its supreme sense, and beginningless in its nature.
-
Etymology 2
From fathom + -ly.
Adverb
fathomly (comparative more fathomly, superlative most fathomly)
- By fathoms; (by extension) profoundly; deeply
- 1988, Ahmed Beita Yusuf, Maitatsine, page 51:
- A metropolitan suzerain, acclaimed to be, at once, par excellence, fathomly erudite, incomparably pious dauntingly charismatic, lustrous without pareil, admirably devout, soundly versed in lslam, remotely materialistic, flexibly oligarchic.
-