shoreless

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Etymology

From 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 III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 138:
      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...

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