单词 | datelessness |
释义 | > as lemmasˈdatelessness ˈdatelessness n. the quality of being dateless; the absence of a fixed time limit. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > time-limit > absence of datelessness1660 1660 T. M. Walker's Hist. Independency IV. 91 The Officers of his [sc. General Monck's] Army..agreed..that the Parliament intended..to perpetuate the Nations slavery by their datelesness. 1894 National Rev. Sept. 139 The datelessness of the child had thrown a ceaseless mystery about her. 2003 D. Barnouw Naipaul's Strangers iv. 62 This innocence is predicated on an eclectic and distorting view of the past, the kind of opaque ‘datelessness’ Naipaul had encountered when researching his family history in Trinidad. < as lemmas |
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