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exhaustless, a. poet. and rhetorical.|ɛgˈzɔːstlɪs| [f. exhaust v. + -less.] Incapable of being exhausted; inexhaustible.
1712Blackmore Creation iii, When we..Nature's..exhaustless energy respect. 1746Hervey Flower Garden Medit. (1818) I. 135 The fields are our exhaustless granary. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 396 An exhaustless supply of clear water. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xvi. 403 Delicate lights thrown into his characters that render them exhaustless as studies. Hence eˈxhaustlessly adv., in an exhaustless manner, so as to be inexhaustible. eˈxhaustlessness, the quality of being inexhaustible.
1766G. Canning Anti-Lucretius iii. 187 Exhaustlessly prolifick, shall they ne'er In shapes by Fancy unconceiv'd appear? 1886W. M. Conway Flemish Artists 20 The exhaustlessness of the miniaturist's fancy. |