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tombless, a.|ˈtuːmlɪs|
[f. tomb n. + -less.]
Having no tomb or sepulchral monument, destitute of a grave; unburied. Also fig.
1594Barnfield Affect. Sheph. ii. xxxvi, Fame is toombles, Vertue liues for aye. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 229 Or lay these bones in an vnworthy Vrne, Tomblesse, with no remembrance ouer them. a1814Orpheus iii. i. in New Brit. Theatre III. 298 Shades of the tombless dead! 1823Praed Australasia 231 The bleak desert, or the tombless sea. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 373 And scorn shall point at our tombless graves. 1855O. W. Holmes Poems 188 Shroudless and tombless they sank to their rest. |