indissolubly

Etymology

indissoluble + -ly

adv

  1. In an indissoluble manner; in a manner that is unable to be dissolved.
    Wedlok is the laufull couple of man & wife, ordeyned indissolubly to bring forth children, & to eschew fornicacion. […] I added this terme (indissolubly) that is to saye, vndepartably or wtout breakyng, that a man shold not thinke that wedlocke ones lawfullye made can be vndone & broken […] 1538, Erasmus Sarcerius, chapter 56, in Richard Taverner, transl., Common Places of Scripture, London: John Byddell
    […] On they move Indissolubly firm; nor obvious hill, Nor straitening vale, nor wood, nor stream, divides Their perfect ranks; 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost/Book_VI), Book 6, lines 68-71
    […] the day is already commenced which is to bind us indissolubly; and when we are once united, there shall be no recurrence of these mental terrors: I guarantee that. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 25, in Jane Eyre

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