immemorial
adjective
extending back beyond memory, record, or knowledge.
immemorially
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a word derived from
immemorial.
Example Sentences
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The cineplex is filled with movies that—like cans of split-pea soup bought immemorially long ago—reëmerge after being dismissed as too paltry for early summer and too lousy for a fall release.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2016
Governed more by ritual than by the hereditary rulers who have immemorially reigned over it, the castle confines Titus in a life of empty ceremony.
From BBC ● May 10, 2013
On street corners, where politicians have immemorially paraded as common men, he seemed, to say the least, out of his element.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carl Jung traveled to East Africa in 1925 and wrote of a "most intense sentiment of returning to the land of my youth," of a "recognition of the immemorially known."
From Time Magazine Archive
With us in England this general council hath been held immemorially, under the several names of michel-synoth, or great council, michel-gemote or great meeting, and more frequently wittena-gemote or the meeting of wise men.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
