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Definition of Passless
1. a. Having no pass; impassable.
Definition of Passless
1. Adjective. Having no pass; impassable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Passless
1. incapable of being traveled over or through [adj]
Literary usage of Passless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Secret Service in South Africa by Douglas Blackburn, W. Waithman Caddell (1911)
"There were numerous Transvaal Boers who made a practice of waylaying passless
Kaffirs and securing their services on these conditions, the menace held over ..."
2. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller (1875)
"ONE or two instances may here suffice to show how com- passless even the best
comparative philologists find themselves if, without a knowledge of Sanskrit, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1838)
"... passless, lossless, and many more. All modern dictionaries, however, show us,
that, being in' Ml possession of this form, words of this kind have been ..."
4. The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835)
"I weep, yet stoop not! the faint anguish flows, A dreamy pang in morning's feverous
doze. Is this piled earth our being's passless mound ? ..."
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