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Starting longer ago than people can remember, or than written history shows. Extending beyond memory, record or tradition.

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  • From time immemorial the men of the town have been famous seamen, and have divided their energies between fishing and hating the English.
  • Time immemorial
  • The mountains rose, their debris silted up the ocean, the gods took their seats on them and contrived the river, and the India we call immemorial came into being.
  • The Jews had in fact been a presence throughout the middle east, from a time "immemorial" as no Arab could have been.
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