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Definition: INDISPENSABLY |
INDISPENSABLYAdverb1. In an indispensable manner. |
Date "INDISPENSABLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But since the government has a direct jurisdiction only over the land, and reaches the possessor of it, (before he has actually incorporated himself in the society) only as he dwells upon, and enjoys that; the obligation any one is under, by virtue of such enjoyment, to submit to the government, begins and ends with the enjoyment; so that whenever the owner, who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government, will, by donation, sale, or otherwise, quit the said possession, he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other common-wealth; or to agree with others to begin a new one, in vacuis locis, in any part of the world, they can find free and unpossessed: whereas he, that has once, by actual agreement, and any express declaration, given his consent to be of any common- wealth, is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be, and remain unalterably a subject to it, and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature; unless, by any calamity, the government he was under comes to be dissolved; or else by some public act cuts him off from being any longer a member of it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | To give due effect to the civil administration of Government and to insure a just execution of the laws, a revision and amendment of the judiciary system is indispensably necessary. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The nature of that country requires indispensably that an unusual proportion of the force employed there should be cavalry or mounted infantry. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "INDISPENSABLY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INDISPENSABLY" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "INDISPENSABLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | непременно (absolutely, by all means, certainly, definitely, necessarily, needs, surely, to be sure, without fail), по необходимост (necessarily, needs, nolens volens, of perforce, perforce). (various references) | ||||
Chinese | 不可缺少地. (various references) | ||||
German | unentbehrliche, unentbehrlich (essential, indispensable). (various references) | ||||
Greek | απαραιτήτωσ, απαραίτητα (necessarily, needs). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 불가결 으로. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | indispensablyay | ||||
| Words rhyming with "INDISPENSABLY" (pronounced 'In`dis*pen"sa*bly'): Abominably, Acceptably, Accessibly, Accountably, Accustomably, Actionably, Admirably, Adorably, Advisably, Affably, Agreeably, Allowably, Alterably, Amenably, Amiably, Amicably, Answerably, ASSEMBLY, Assumably, Audibly, Avaiably, Brambly, Bubbly, Chanceably, Changeably, Chargeably, Charitably, Cognizably, Comfortably, Commensurably, Compatibly, Compellably, Comprehensibly, Conducibly, Conformably, Conscionably, Considerably, Contemptibly, Conversably, Convertibly, Covenably, Credibly, Creditably, Crumbly, Customably, Damnably, Deceivably, Deducibly, Demonstrably, Deplorably. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-i-l-n-n-p-s-s-y" | |
-3 letters: insensibly. | |
-4 letters: asininely, biennials, blandness, blindness, dailiness, pinelands, plainness, sandpiles. | |
-5 letters: anilines, annelids, baldness, biasedly, biennial, biplanes, bypassed, deniably, dialyses, dialysis, disables, displays, dyspneal, dyspneas, insanely, lesbians, lindanes, painless, paisleys, passible, piebalds, pineland, sandpile, sensibly, sideslip, sidespin, spaniels, spindles, spinneys, spinnies, synapsed, synapsid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-i-l-n-n-p-s-s-y" | |
+3 letters: indispensability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 44 49 53 50 45 4E 53 41 42 4C 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.. .. ... .--. . -. ... .- -... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 01000100 01001001 01010011 01010000 01000101 01001110 01010011 01000001 01000010 01001100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N D I S P E N S A B L Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0044 0049 0053 0050 0045 004E 0053 0041 0042 004C 0059 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43483843535039485335364659 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Historic 3. Quotations: Speeches 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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