imperceptively

• And it's where the past seems to imperceptively smack into the present, blending in a way that makes the thick, oozing sense of history here indistinguishable from the modern aspects of the town. —  Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast
• The giant apparition seemed sometimes to be cowering down as in terror, so that nothing but his brow and eyes were seen; still these never turned one moment from their object -- again it rose imperceptively up, and began to approach with great caution; and, as it neared, the dimensions of its form lessened, still continuing, however, far above the natural size. —  The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
• And finally, has an intelligent and learned student of Shakespeare read him so imperceptively as not to know, that, if "cheer," or any other word, had been used in his time only as a verb, he would not have hesitated a moment about using it as a noun, if it suited his purpose to do so? —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861

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