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Webster 1913 Edition


Shoreless

Shore′less

,
Adj.
Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent;
as, a
shoreless
ocean
.
Young.

Webster 1828 Edition


Shoreless

SHO'RELESS

,
Adj.
Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as a shoreless ocean.

Definition 2024


shoreless

shoreless

English

Adjective

shoreless (not comparable)

  1. Without a shore, or with no shore in sight; boundless.
    • 1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature, London: J. Johnson, Canto I, lines 295-6,
      Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves / Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves;
    • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter 3,
      Our earthly fire again, no matter how fierce or widespread it may be, is always of a limited extent; but the lake of fire in **** is boundless, shoreless and bottomless.
    • 1932, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight (1931), translated by Stuart Gilbert, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1942, p. 83,
      A shoreless night, the pilot thought, leading to no anchorage (for every port was unattainable, it seemed), nor toward dawn.
    • 1955, Meher Baba, God speaks: the theme of creation and its purpose
      In other words, the infinite, unlimited and shoreless ocean now is made to look upon itself through the drop as merely the limited drop of that infinite, unlimited and shoreless ocean...

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