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Definition of Impossibly
1. Adverb. To a degree impossible of achievement. "Impossibly far from sources of supply"
Definition of Impossibly
1. adv. Not possibly.
Definition of Impossibly
1. Adverb. Not possibly; in an impossible manner. ¹
2. Adverb. To the point of impossibility. ¹
3. Adverb. Contrary to what had been thought possible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impossibly
1. [adv]
Medical Definition of Impossibly
1. Not possibly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impossibly
Literary usage of Impossibly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... lacks the atmosphere of the East, presents us with personages rather than with
persons, and makes them talk in an impossibly magniloquent style ; yet, ..."
2. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1903)
"The hero is impossibly ... the Dale boys are impossibly good and the Weston boys
impossibly bad. Most boys would pronounce the book "bully," but it is not ..."
3. Before and at Trial: What Should be Done by Counsel, Solicitor and Client by Richard Harris (1890)
"Just let us consider for a moment how an impossibly good case is made up, ...
You will find that the impossibly good case and the impossibly good man are ..."
4. Wit and Wisdom: A Public Affairs Miscellany by Colin Bingham (1982)
"They are mesmerised by the dramatic, and led to conceive of friends impossibly
good, enemies impossibly bad, and both impossibly uniform throughout—nations ..."
5. Alexander Hamilton: An Essay on American Union, by Frederick Scott Oliver by Frederick Scott Oliver (1921)
"They are mesmerised by the dramatic and led to conceive of friends impossibly
good, enemies impossibly bad, and both impossibly uniform throughout—nations ..."
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