Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an indissoluble manner; so as not to be dissolved, sundered, or broken.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an indissoluble manner.

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  • adverb In an indissoluble manner; in a manner that is unable to be dissolved.

Etymologies

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indissoluble +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • He alone of men not English-born has added fascination to English shrines, and given them that new light that the poet brings; and he has linked his name indissolubly for all English-reading people with the Alhambra and Granada.

    Criticisms and Interpretations. I. By George E. Woodberry 1917

  • It is true that, in making France great, he became great with her, and attached his name indissolubly to her grandeur.

    The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • She did not, indeed, altogether quit her station and follow a course peculiar to the male sex; but she did once seize the oar and launch fearlessly upon the raging sea, and perform a deed which strong and daring men might have been proud of -- which drew forth the wondering admiration of her country, and has rendered her name indissolubly connected with the annals of heroic daring in the saving of human life from vessels wrecked upon our rock-bound shores.

    Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships R. [Illustrator] Richardson 1859

  • In the middle of this century rises a brilliant name indissolubly connected with all the great events of her time.

    Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894

  • Though here, if anywhere, the style is the man, yet it is noticeable only, like the images of Brutus, by its absence, so thoroughly is he absorbed in his work, while he fuses thought and word indissolubly together, till all the particles cohere by the best virtue of each.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • But if Borges, who was buried in Geneva, is the more obviously European of the two men, in terms of stylistic propriety and range of literary reference, his fiction is indissolubly tethered to the avenues and plazas of Buenos Aires.

    A Surreal Tour of Nowhere in Particular James Gardner 2011

  • He used the last of his chloroform and achieved the bone-graft — living bone to living bone, living man and living rabbit immovable and indissolubly bandaged and bound together, their mutual processes uniting and reconstructing a perfect arm.

    THE END OF THE STORY 2010

  • Economic and social performance designed to create a better stakeholder capitalism are indissolubly linked in a virtuous circle, an argument I made both in The State We're In and in Them and Us.

    Good capitalism does exist. And it's more crucial now than ever | Will Hutton 2011

  • Songs and dialogue are woven together indissolubly, and each scene is played not for laughs but for truth which means that the laughter comes from the heart.

    In Love With 'She Loves Me' 2010

  • "You could see the two sisters had passed through some unequivocal experience, which, though it might not interest others, had formed and indissolubly bound them."

    Five Best 2010

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