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fadeless, a.|ˈfeɪdlɪs| [f. fade v. + -less.] That is exempt from fading or decay: unfading.
1652Benlowes Theoph. vi. xx, Flow'rs..Which into fadeless colours flow. c1722Watts Reliq. Juv., Ode Death Sir T. Abney, Come dress the bed with fadeless flowers. 1796Coleridge To J. Cottle, May your fame fadeless live! 1852D. M. Moir Leg. St. Rosalie Poet. Wks. II. 79 Paradise, Where all is fadeless. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xvi. (1860) 177 A deathless, fadeless ray. Hence ˈfadelessly adv.
1861H. Macmillan Footn. Page Nat. 189 The robe of nature is yet fadelessly green. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 121 Judah gave each..a last look..as if to possess himself of the scene fadelessly. |