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infinitely

/ˈɪnfɪnɪtli/ adverb C1
  1. In an infinite manner; as of anything growing without bounds; endlessly.
  2. To a surpassingly large extent. · He is infinitely more capable than John.
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Anne would have infinitely preferred a whipping to this punishment under which her sensitive spirit quivered as from a whiplash.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 114 · C1
“Tell your sister I am delighted to hear of her improvement on the harp, and pray let her know that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful little design for a table, and I think it infinitely superior to Miss Grantley’s.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 51 · B2
“I should like balls infinitely better,” she replied, “if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 61 · B2
The observations of her uncle and aunt now began; and each of them pronounced him to be infinitely superior to anything they had expected.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 289 · B2

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