shoreless

shoreless

English

Etymology

shore +‎ -less

Adjective

shoreless (not comparable)

1. Without a shore, or with no shore in sight; boundless.
   • 1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature, London: J. Johnson, Canto I, lines 295-6,

     Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves / Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves;

   • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, “Chapter 3”, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, OCLC 1881984:

     Our earthly fire again, no matter how fierce or widespread it may be, is always of a limited extent; but the lake of fire in hell is boundless, shoreless and bottomless.

   • 1932, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight (1931), translated by Stuart Gilbert, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1942, p. 83,

     A shoreless night, the pilot thought, leading to no anchorage (for every port was unattainable, it seemed), nor toward dawn.

   • 1955, Meher Baba, God speaks: the theme of creation and its purpose:

     In other words, the infinite, unlimited and shoreless ocean now is made to look upon itself through the drop as merely the limited drop of that infinite, unlimited and shoreless ocean...

Translations

Translations

Polish: bezbrzeżny (pl) Russian: безбре́жный (ru) (bezbréžnyj) Ukrainian: безбере́жний (uk) (bezberéžnyj)

Anagrams

• horseless