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intolerably, adv.|ɪnˈtɒlərəblɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In an intolerable manner or degree; so as to be intolerable; unbearably, insufferably.
1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 52 Y haue ben caste downe hed longe into a grete hepe of brennyning money amonge the whiche y brente ful intolerably. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 208 It is..so intolerably cold, that onely that side therof is habitable which looketh towards Fez. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. iii. 104 It is intollerably hot there from March till July. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 164 The Pain rages intollerably. 1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 744 These cantos became intolerably dull. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxxii. 445 The transition..to 46° below zero..was intolerably trying.
†b. As a strong intensive: Excessively, extremely, ‘awfully’. Obs.
1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) II. 110 (Case Conscience), I..cannot say I was intolerably out of temper with the man. 1821Examiner 1 Apr. 205/1 Her voice and eye were intolerably pleasant. |