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fathomless, a.|ˈfæðəmlɪs|
[f. as prec. + -less.]
†1. That cannot be clasped with the arms. Obs.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. ii. ii. 30 Wil you..buckle in a waste most fathomlesse With spannes and inches?
2. That cannot be measured with a fathom line; of measureless depth. Often of a metaphorical ‘abyss’.
1638G. Sandys Paraphr. Div. Poems Ex. xv, God, in the fathomlesse Profound, Hath all his choice Commanders drown'd. 1644Milton Educ. (1738) 126 Fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. (1843) 6/2 That fathomless abyss of reason of state. 1801Southey Thalaba vii. vi, Adown..Plunge the whole waters; so precipitous, So fathomless a fall. 1830Tennyson Ode to Memory iii, The half-attain'd futurity, Tho' deep not fathomless. 1871E. F. Burr Ad Fidem xv. 293 Passing up through fathomless azure.
3. fig. That cannot be penetrated or fully understood; incomprehensible. Cf. fathom v. 4 b.
1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 184 Heer lies the fadomles absurdity. 1713Young Last Day i. 229 Oh joys unmix'd, and fathomless delight! 1883E. Clodd in Knowl. 15 June 352/2 The fathomless mystery of the universe. 1891Spectator 14 Feb., His ignorance..is fathomless.
Hence ˈfathomlessly adv.
1822Bryon Werner iv. i. 506 His death was fathomlessly deep in blood. 1878Masque Poets 29 The smile so fathomlessly bland. |