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Definition of Insupportably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insupportably
Literary usage of Insupportably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1873)
"What wonder then that Mallett seemed dull to him, and its inhabitants, excepting
Hero, insupportably uninteresting. Besides, knew that much of his history ..."
2. Handbook of Organic Chemistry: For the Use of Students by William Gregory, J. Milton Sanders (1857)
"Its smell is insupportably offensive, and its vapor is highly poisonous. The two
latter characters belong to all the compounds of ..."
3. Recollections of the Peninsula by Moyle Sherer (1824)
"... in itself, have been insupportably dull, as there were no families in the
place above the middling class in life, and the scenery around was not ..."
4. The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1917)
"... the line in the first being— When insupportably his foot advanced; and in the
second, simply, When, insupportably advancing. But this is unimportant. ..."
5. Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835)
"... that Coleridge in one of his Odes describes France as— " Her footsteps
insupportably advancing ;"—(tic.) and his charge is not that the words were ..."
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