INDELIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indelibly mean? 

• INDELIBLY (adverb)
  The adverb INDELIBLY has 1 sense:

1. in an indelible manner

  Familiarity information: INDELIBLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDELIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an indelible manner

Context example:

this tradition has left its mark indelibly upon the social, political, educational and industrial fabric of this country

Pertainym:

indelible (cannot be removed or erased)

 Context examples 

The saying might have worn out of my memory, had not a circumstance immediately followed which served indelibly to fix it there.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I derived benefit from the task: it had kept my head and hands employed, and had given force and fixedness to the new impressions I wished to stamp indelibly on my heart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)