Unmeasurably

adv. [UN-¹ 11.]

  † 1.  Without measure or moderation; immoderately, unrestrainedly. Obs.

a. 1420.  Wycliffite Bible, Ecclus. xi. 10, margin. If thou suest, in sekinge richessis vnmesurably, thou schalt not take.

a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour, 53. Other that be … enflamed unmesurably like wolues.

1542–5.  Brinklow, Lament., 9 b. Ye abvse your riches,… for ye spende vnmeasurably.

1561.  Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 40. Eating and drinking vnmeasurably.

1631.  Anchoran, Comenius’ Gate Tongues, 190. To laugh aloud and vnmeasurably.

1679.  Hist. Jetzer, 17. He … frets and fumes unmeasurably.

a. 1693.  Ludlow, Mem. (1698), II. 624. The Court … grew unmeasurably insolent.

1722.  Wollaston, Relig. Nat., V. xviii. (1724), 111. Opposite parties make a merit of blackening their adversaries … undeservedly and unmeasurably.

  2.  To an immeasurable extent or degree; excessively, extremely.

1513.  Henry V. (1911), 132. The plague of famyne that vnmeasurably raigned amongest them.

c. 1530.  Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1614), 336. Hys spere … was so long & byg so vnmesurably, y^t [etc.].

1624.  Bp. Hall, Peace Maker, in Var. Treat. (1627), 538. Grace sensibly imperfect, sinne vnmeasurably sinfull.

a. 1670.  Rust, Disc. Truth (1682), 180. A Soul unmeasurably breathing after the Embraces of Truth.

1704.  Norris, Ideal World, II. xii. 510. ’Tis not to be imagined … how unmeasurably the powers of that soul must needs be illuminated.

a. 1797.  H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. II. (1847), I. vi. 186. He was … unmeasurably obstinate.

1828.  Ld. Grenville, Sink. Fund, 1. Unmeasurably more beneficial to mankind, are those qualities.

1866.  Airy, Pop. Astron., i. 37. That the distance … is unmeasurably small, compared with the distances of the stars.