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from The Century Dictionary.

  • So as to be indelible; so as not to be blotted out or effaced.

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  • adverb In an indelible manner.

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  • adverb in an indelible manner

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Examples

  • In great bands, in long lines, slowly, towheaded, sore-footed, the vast gatherings of the prolific lower range moved north, each cow with its title indelibly marked upon its hide.

    The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West Emerson Hough 1890

  • Do you have any dishes that while not your favorite, will remain indelibly associated in your mind with a particular family member?

    Archive 2009-06-01 Laura 2009

  • Do you have any dishes that while not your favorite, will remain indelibly associated in your mind with a particular family member?

    Family Recipes: Susan's Sour Cherry Pie Laura 2009

  • Yet these are the pictures which remain indelibly inked upon it.

    Cafe Writing ~ Picture of My Heart 2009

  • Egon Ronay, the dapper Hungarian food critic who stamped his name indelibly on British culinary history, has died at the age of 94.

    Egon Ronay, Britain's king of good food, dies at 94 2010

  • I mean, yes we have to teach our children, but other than that this terrible tragedy, this attack on our nation will remain indelibly etched into our history.

    9/11: We Will Never Forget!!! Peter 2004

  • Now, a year later, Fitzgerald is again making a bid to have his name indelibly inscribed in the annals of radicalism with the imprimatur of the NYR.

    SF State cont'd. Illick, Joseph E. 1969

  • Governor of the Colony, have inscribed his name indelibly on the page of history, not only as one of Nature's Noblemen, but as an eminent

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Various

  • During this period John Brown stamped his name indelibly upon American history.

    Frederick Douglass 1932

  • Then the Twenty-second Convention met in Raleigh on May 6, 1924, in the new Sir Walter, a name indelibly woven into the history of North Carolina, not needing even the city of Raleigh to make it famous and familiar.

    History of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs 1901-1925 Sallie Southall Cotten 1925

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