tombless

tombless

English

Etymology

tomb +‎ -less

Adjective

tombless (not comparable)

1. Without a tomb.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 2,

     […] or there we’ll sit,

     Ruling in large and ample empery

     O’er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,

     Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,

     Tombless, with no remembrance over them.

   • 1816, Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth, London: John Murray, Stanza 17, lines 444-445, p. 27,

     But when all is past, it is humbling to tread

     O’er the weltering field of the tombless dead,