spacelessadj.

1616 J. Davies Speculum Proditori in Select Second Husband sig. G3 They can giue no grace Beyond the span of life; Poore spacelesse-space!

a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Little Bartas in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 776 Nor may wee ask, What th' Eviternall-One, That space-less Space, could finde to doo alone.

1761 R. Lloyd Epist. to C. Churchill 10 Strait into air to spaceless nothing fall The castle, lions, giants, dwarf and all.

1795 Robert & Adela (Dublin ed.) II. 166 Certainty!—dreadful certainty! leaves the world one spaceless void.

1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 323 There timeless, spaceless, dwells the Eternal One.

1874 Contemp. Rev. 23 403 The timeless and spaceless Essence.

1880 H. Drummond Ideal Life (1897) 69 By going away He was in a spaceless land and in a timeless eternity.

1924 E. Brennecke T. Hardy's Universe i. 31 Will as the thing-in-itself is timeless and spaceless, it can never become object of perception, and is therefore beyond all definition.

1962 R. M. Helm Gloomy Dean ii. 73 It is timeless and spaceless, and thus not subject to physical barriers against interpenetrability.

2004 B. Greene Fabric of Cosmos xvi. 487 No one has yet come up with such a spaceless and timeless formulation of string theory.

a1839 S. T. Coleridge & J. Gillman Hints towards Theory of Life (1848) 54 If we exclude space,..the time remains as a spaceless point.

1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 163 A need That spaceless stays where sharp analysis Has shown a plenum filled without it.

1898 Philos. Rev. 7 619 That space is a prius of things, is commonly inferred from the fact that we easily conceive thingless space, but not spaceless thing.

1919 J. H. Hyslop Contact with Other World iv. xxi. 353 The philosophic mind..goes so far as to deprive spirit of every attribute of matter, leaving it a spaceless point of force.

1957 Jrnl. Philos. 54 60 If spaceless, situations could not contain movers and actors and hence would not serve as boundaries of events.

2000 Jrnl. Socio-Econ. (Nexis) 29 225 In academic work we have had to adjust to spaceless, non-tactile, non-print communications.

1895 G. 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.

1985 J. Urry in D. Gregory & J. Urry Social Relations & Spatial Structures iii. 23 We also need a way of characterising such entities ‘spacelessly’—that is, that notions of space should be conceptualised non-anthropocentrically.

1848 Freemasons' Q. Rev. 30 Dec. 396 Beings bounded by space could not hope to measure spacelessness.

1981 M. Spark Loitering with Intent v. 91 The spacelessness of this room where I lived..with..a bed for sitting and sleeping on.