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Definition of Placeless
1. a. Having no place or office.
Definition of Placeless
1. Adjective. Lacking a proper place ¹
2. Adjective. Lacking places for people, things, etc.; lacking a geographic orientation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Placeless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Placeless
Literary usage of Placeless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"And see! they meet, Ladi in ih« other lost and found : and sec placeless, as
spirits, one soft water-sun Throbbing within them, Heart at once and Eye Î With ..."
2. The Philosophy of the Christian Religion by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1902)
"... embedded in a world of such severe actuality, is not made by it local or
provincial ; on the contrary, what we may call its timeless and placeless note ..."
3. The Philosophy of the Christian Religion by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1902)
"... what we may call its timeless and placeless note seems only the more accentuated
by its narrow medium. The social conditions amid which it was born, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"placeless. placeless, as spirits.—COLERIDGE. Placid. Placid as a duck pond.
— ANON. Placid as a mill-pond. — IBID. Placid as a scarecrow in a field of ..."
5. Philosophy of Theism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University by Alexander Campbell Fraser (1899)
"... out of all embodiment — placeless, if not also timeless, life; and solitary
too, by dissolution of the familiar medium of communication between persons. ..."
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