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单词 havenless
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havenlessadj.

Brit. /ˈheɪv(ə)nləs/, U.S. /ˈheɪv(ə)nləs/
Forms: see haven n. and -less suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: haven n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < haven n. + -less suffix.
That has no haven; without a haven.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [adjective] > furnished with harbours > not
havenlessa1398
harbourless1600
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. lxxx. 774 Icaria..is nouȝt able for men to wony ynne for hiȝe rokkes and cragges, and also [for he is] hauenles in eueryche syde [L. nullis finibus portuosa].
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. 352 The Haven-lesse and harbourlesse coasts of Italie.
1671 G. Meriton Geogr. Descr. World 287 The other Islands in this Sea are Absirtides, Cheros, Wegger, Grissa, and Arbe, the only Havenless Island of the whole Sea.
1821 Eclectic Rev. July 10 We should launch at once on the stormy and havenless sea of controversy.
1867 Contemp. Rev. 5 145 The one great port of a havenless sea.
1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 May 1022/2 It rests solely with the medical officer of the district to decide as to the lunacy of any havenless paupers in his district.
2002 R. E. Meagher tr. Euripides Helen in Essent. Euripides 282 His ship foundered on the rocks, somewhere along Libya's havenless coast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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