| 释义 |
ˈnightless, a.
[f. night n. + -less.]
Devoid of night, having no night.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 434 The Sun (whose presence they are long deprived of in the winter, which is recompensed in their night-lesse Summer). 1643Trapp Comm. Gen. xlvi. 29 Think of that glorious night-less day. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 772 Midsummer, or nightless days, now begin.
Hence ˈnightlessness.
1897Expositor Sept. 208 All liberty is the result of nightlessness. Ibid. 209 The main feature of the city is the nightlessness. |