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shoreless, a.|ˈʃɔəlɪs|
[f. shore n.1 + -less.]
Having no shore. a. Of a sea, or what is compared to a sea: Boundless.
1628Feltham Resolves i. v. 10 One will haue him one that liues religiously, and will not reuell it in a shorelesse excesse. 1643Herle Answ. to Ferne 21 We shall be no longer lost upon that shorelesse Sea. 1764Grainger Sugar Cane ii. 275 Can she unappall'd,..The shoreless deluge stem? 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. (1791) 53 So on the shoreless air the intrepid Gaul Launch'd the vast concave of his buoyant ball. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. vi, The crowd seems shoreless. 1863I. Williams Baptistery i. Imag. i. (1874) 10 An atom in the shoreless infinite. 1891Kipling Light that Failed xi. (1900) 189 He was adrift on the shoreless tides of delirium.
b. nonce-uses. Of a vessel: Having no shore in sight. Of a coastline, etc.: Having no low ground adjacent to the sea; precipitous.
a1848O. W. Holmes Parting Word 6 Ere this shining day grow dark, Skies shall gird my shoreless bark. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 9 The shoreless cliffs of Ossa. 1892Lord Lytton King Poppy iii. 306 A shoreless, steep, surf-beaten island rose. |