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INVARIABLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without variation or change, in every case
Example:
he always arrives on time
Synonyms:
always; constantly; invariably
Classified under:
Pertainym:
invariable (not liable to or capable of change)
Context examples:
Whatever path the lecturer took amid the wilds of the past seemed invariably to lead him to some assertion as to extinct or prehistoric life which instantly brought the same bulls' bellow from the Professor.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These twins are invariably identical.
(Monochorionic Monoamniotic Twin Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)
She could not help frequently glancing her eye at Mr. Darcy, though every glance convinced her of what she dreaded; for though he was not always looking at her mother, she was convinced that his attention was invariably fixed by her.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Charles and Mary still talked on in the same style; he, half serious and half jesting, maintaining the scheme for the play, and she, invariably serious, most warmly opposing it, and not omitting to make it known that, however determined to go to Camden Place herself, she should not think herself very well used, if they went to the play without her.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A door which faced that which led into the quarters of the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But the pack invariably lost him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The Miss Dashwoods had no greater reason to be dissatisfied with Mrs. Jennings's style of living, and set of acquaintance, than with her behaviour to themselves, which was invariably kind.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He was at too great a height for that, and having been deaf to a twice-repeated summons, he went without the heavy Sunday dinner with which Mr. Higginbotham invariably graced his table.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But, in general, Mr. Micawber has had no secrets from the bosom of affection—I allude to his wife—and has invariably, on our retirement to rest, recalled the events of the day.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In spite of his capacity for concealing his emotions, I could easily see that Holmes was in a state of suppressed excitement, while I was myself tingling with that half-sporting, half-intellectual pleasure which I invariably experienced when I associated myself with him in his investigations.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
