returnless

English

Etymology

From return +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹəˈtɜɹnləs/

Adjective

returnless (not comparable)

from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.)
- 1845, Mrs. F. Beavan, Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick‎:
  Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow.
- 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes‎:
  They would do an immensity of labor on their returnless journey to the ocean.
- 1872, William Still, The Underground Railroad‎:
  You must hear the judge's decision, remorselessly giving up the woman with her children born and unborn, into the hands of their claimants--by them to be carried to the slave prison, and thence to be sold to a returnless distance from the remaining but scattered fragments of her once happy family.
(of something that is gone) which will not return
- 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Visit to the venerable Charles Thompson, pages 94-95:
  —but now false Memory loosed
  Her time-worn cable from the wilder'd mind,
  Blotting the chart whereon it loved to gaze
  Mid the dim ocean of returnless years.—
- 1895, Mary Baker Eddy, Pulpit and Press‎:
  Pass on, returnless year!

单词	returnless
释义	returnless English Etymology From return +‎ -less. Pronunciation IPA^(key): /ɹəˈtɜɹnləs/ Adjective returnless (not comparable) from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.) 1845, Mrs. F. Beavan, Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick‎: Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow. 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes‎: They would do an immensity of labor on their returnless journey to the ocean. 1872, William Still, The Underground Railroad‎: You must hear the judge's decision, remorselessly giving up the woman with her children born and unborn, into the hands of their claimants--by them to be carried to the slave prison, and thence to be sold to a returnless distance from the remaining but scattered fragments of her once happy family. (of something that is gone) which will not return 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Visit to the venerable Charles Thompson, pages 94-95: —but now false Memory loosed Her time-worn cable from the wilder'd mind, Blotting the chart whereon it loved to gaze Mid the dim ocean of returnless years.— 1895, Mary Baker Eddy, Pulpit and Press‎: Pass on, returnless year!
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