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Definition of Dateless
1. Adjective. Having no known beginning and presumably no end. "Sempiternal truth"
2. Adjective. Of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date. "Dateless customs"
3. Adjective. Not bearing a date. "A dateless letter"
4. Adjective. Unaffected by time. "Helen's timeless beauty"
Definition of Dateless
1. a. Without date; having no fixed time.
Definition of Dateless
1. Adjective. Out of one's head; deranged. ¹
2. Adjective. (British dialect slang) thick-headed ¹
3. Adjective. Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated. ¹
4. Adjective. Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover. ¹
5. Adjective. Timeless; immortal ¹
6. Adjective. Without a start; immemorial ¹
7. Adjective. (archaic) Without an end; endless ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dateless
1. having no date [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dateless
Literary usage of Dateless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird (1886)
"LETTER Y. 1 dateless Day—" Those hands of yours "—A Puritan—Persevering
Shiftlessness—The House-Mother—Family Worship—A Grim ..."
2. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: To by John Walker (1806)
"Gloomy, To DATK, date. va To note with the time at which any thing is written or
done. dateless ... dateless ..."
3. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"... was as respects the exterior walls; but within there seemed to be neither
floor nor chamber, nothing but the empty shell of the dateless old fortress. ..."
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