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With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification. Inexcusably obstinate and perverse. Jortin.

In an inexpiable manner of degree; to a degree that admits of no atonement.

In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.

Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. Macaulay.

In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke.

Infantile; childish. A degree of credulity next infantine. Burke.

By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; in an infinitesimal degree.

In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning. Barrow.

e; to lodge. [Obs.] When he had brought them into his city And inned them, everich at his degree. Chaucer.

; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy. All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity. Johnson. Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. Cowper.

In an insatiable manner or degree; unappeasably. "Insatiably covetous." South.

able of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual; as, insensible motion. Two small and almost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm. Sir T. Browne. They fall away, And languish with insensible decay. Dryden.

So; to such a degree; in such wise; -- followed by that or as, and formerly sometimes by both. Cf. Inasmuch. Insomusch as that field is called . . . Aceldama. Acts i. 19. Simonides was an excellent poet, insomuch that he made his fortune by it. L'Estrange.

of a church; to install a college president. Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree. Shak.

In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.

In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.

In a manner or to a degree not to be overcome.

Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as: (a) Ardent; fervent; as, intense heat. (b) Keen; biting; as, intense cold. (c) Vehement; earnest; exceedingly strong; as, intense passion or hate. (d) Very severe; violent; as, intense pain or anguish. (e) Deep; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light. In this intense…

To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold.

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc. If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. F. W. Robertson.…