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Definition of Inscrutably
1. Adverb. In an inscrutable manner.
Definition of Inscrutably
1. adv. In an inscrutable manner.
Definition of Inscrutably
1. Adverb. In an inscrutable manner. ¹
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Definition of Inscrutably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inscrutably
Literary usage of Inscrutably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Secular annotations on Scripture texts by Francis Jacox (1871)
"inscrutably DECEITFUL, DESPERATELY WICKED. JEREMIAH xvii. 9. " rI '•HE heart is
deceitful above all things, and desperately _L wicked: who can know it? ..."
2. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1850)
"... To influence in a mysterious manner; Mysterious, Mysteriously; Mysteriously
intelligent inscrutably intelligent and mysterious; inscrutably mysterious; ..."
3. The Ivory Tower by Henry James (1917)
"His acceptance of his check she could but call inscrutably splendid—inscrutably
perhaps because she couldn't quite feel that it had left nothing between ..."
4. The Office and Work of Universities by John Henry Newman (1856)
"As nations are inscrutably brought within the sacred fold, and inscrutably cast
without it, so are they used, while within it, in this way or that, ..."
5. An Inquiry Into the Proper Mode of Rendering the Word God in Translating the by Walter Henry Medhurst (1848)
"... the light or vivacity of heaven dwells in the sun, as the light or vivacity
of man dwells in the eye. is called tf$ shin, inscrutably intelligent. ..."
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