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Unpardonably

Definition: Unpardonably

Unpardonably

Adverb

1. In an unpardonable manner or to an unpardonable degree; "he was inexcusably cruel to his wife".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unpardonably" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references)


Synonyms: Unpardonably

Synonyms: inexcusably (adv), unforgivably (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: excusably (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Unpardonably

"Unpardonably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unpardonably" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unpardonably

Language Translations for "unpardonably"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

unverzeihliche (unforgivable). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ardonablyunpay

   

Russian 

  

непростительно (unforgivably). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unpardonably

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-l-n-n-o-p-r-u-y"

-2 letters: pardonably.

-4 letters: adorably, boundary, lapboard, parlando, pauldron.

-5 letters: abandon, annular, bandora, broadly, dalapon, durably, lanyard, laundry, lupanar, nodular, nonplay, norland, pabular, pandora, pandour, pandura, payload, poulard, poundal, proband, proudly, roundly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unpardonably


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 70 61 72 64 6F 6E 61 62 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    .--.    .-    .-.    -..    ---    -.    .-    -...    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101111 01101110 01100001 01100010 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#112 &#97 &#114 &#100 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0070 0061 0072 0064 006F 006E 0061 0062 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558082678470818067687891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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