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Termless. World English Historical Dictionary

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Termless. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Termless a. [f. TERM sb. + -LESS.]

1   1.  Having no term or limit; boundless, endless.

2 c. 1586.  C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LXXXIX. xii. In tearmlesse turnes, my tearmlesse truth assuring.

3 1596.  Spenser, Hymn Heavenly Love, 75. Ne hath their day, ne hath their blisse, an end, But there their termelesse time in pleasure spend.

4 1652.  Benlowes, Theoph., IV. xl. That pen was dipt i’ith Standish of thy Blood Which wrot th’ Indenture of our termless Good!

5 1851.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. II. IV. iii. § 14. The same … laws which require perfect simplicity of mass, require infinite and termless complication of detail.

6   2.  Incapable of being expressed by terms; inexpressible, indescribable. poet. (Cf. PHRASELESS.)

7 1597.  Shaks., Lover’s Compl., 94. His phenix downe began but to appeare Like vnshorne veluet, on that termlesse skin.

8   3.  Not dependent on or limited by any terms or conditions; unconditional.

9 1902.  Westm. Gaz., 14 Oct., 1/3. Not a peace by interruption of hostilities; but the simple, unconditioned, termless peace supplied by a ‘fight to the finish.’

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