1869. Will-o’-the-Wisp, II. 14 Aug., 254. They should have strangled you rather than have permitted you to utter that abysmally stupid speech which you made last Tuesday.
1879. Geo. Eliot, Theo. Such, xviii. 314. The prejudiced, the puerile, the spiteful, and the abysmally ignorant.
1891. Zangwill, Bachelors’ Club, x. 255. After abysmally deep reflection I said there was only one way for me to decide between them.
1923. P. Rosenfeld, in The Dial, LXXIV. 223. The first two movements are abysmally weak, and represent a past of which the composer can scarcely be vain.
