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pathless, a.|ˈpɑːθlɪs, ˈpæ-|
[f. path n.1 + -less.]
Having no path through or across it; destitute of paths; untrodden, trackless. Also fig.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 199 What Guide conducteth..your Legions Through path-less paths in unacquainted Regions? 1631Chapman Cæsar & Pompey Plays 1873 III. 170 Striving to entangle men In pathlesse error. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 14 Having travelled 7 miles in those wild pathless Woods. 1734Thomson Liberty iii. 42 Orbs, Myriads on Myriads, thro' the pathless Sky, Unerring roll. 1873J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age v. 52 In the silent and pathless desolations of central Greenland.
Hence ˈpathlessness.
1851Hawthorne Snow Image, etc. (1879) 92 The street..resolved into a drearier pathlessness than when the forest covered it. 1889Spectator 13 Apr., An African forest..may stretch, like the forest of Aruwhimi, in unbroken gloom and pathlessness over an area equal to five Englands. |