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spaceless, a.|ˈspeɪslɪs|
[f. space n.1 + -less.]
1. That is not subject to or limited by space; infinite, boundless. Freq. coupled with timeless.
1606J. Davies (Heref.) Sir T. Overbury Concl., Wks. (Grosart) II. 20/1 They can giue no grace Beyond the span of life: Poore spacelesse-space! a1618Sylvester Little Bartas 564 Wks. (Grosart) II. 90 Nor may wee aske, What th' eviternall-One, That space-lesse Space could find to doe alone. 1819Blackw. Mag. V. 323 There timeless, spaceless, dwells the Eternal One. 1874Contemp. Rev. XXIII. 403 The timeless and spaceless Essence. 1880H. Drummond Ideal Life, etc. (1897) 69 By going away He was in a spaceless land and in a timeless eternity.
2. Occupying no space.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1858) I. 394 If we exclude space.., the time remains as a spaceless point. 1874Geo. Eliot Coll. Breakf. P. 116 A need That spaceless stays where sharp analysis Has a shown a plenum filled without it.
Hence ˈspacelessly adv.; ˈspacelessness, the quality or condition of being unbounded by space, or of lacking space.
1895G. MacDonald Lilith xxxix. 286 We were not in the outer darkness; had we been, we could not have been with her; we should have been timelessly, spacelessly, absolutely apart. 1920S. Alexander Space, Time, & Deity I. 342 To possess spacelessness or timelessness (eternity). 1981M. Spark Listening with Intent v. 91 The spacelessness of this room where I lived..with..a bed for sitting and sleeping on. |