tomblessadj.
/ˈtuːmləs/, U.S. /ˈtumləs/ Without a tomb or sepulchral monument; having no grave; unburied. Also (and in earliest use) figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [adjective] > immortal
undeadlyc950
undeathlyOE
immortalc1374
undyinga1400
ever-living1514
unmortal1538
never-dying1567
tombless1594
deathless1595
transmortal1932
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adjective] > without a memorial
tombless1594
epitaphlessa1839
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [adjective] > without
tombless1594
graveless1855
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [adjective] > buried > not
unburieda900
unbeburiedOE
unshrined1297
ungravenc1400
unbegrave1513
unearthed1513
ungraveda1547
untombed1560
unyerded1596
unsepulchred?1611
gravelessa1616
uninhumed1626
unterred1633
uninterred1648
unentombed1697
unhearsed1809
tombless1814
unsepultured1862
1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. xxxvi. sig. Ciiijv Fame is toombles, Vertue liues for aye.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 229 Or lay these bones in an vnworthy Vrne, Tomblesse, with no remembrance ouer them. View more context for this quotation
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xi. 60 But we had left his corse In Circe's palace, tombless, undeplored.
1814 Orpheus iii. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre III. 298 Shades of the tombless dead!
1823 R. C. Praed Austral. Life 231 The bleak desert, or the tombless sea.
1855 O. W. Holmes Poems 188 Shroudless and tombless they sank to their rest.
1926 J. Mackay Bride of Rivers & Other Verses 36 Bones of our fathers lie Tombless and whitening!
1993 Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 28 Feb. (Le Monde section) 14 Those tombless cemeteries called concentration camps.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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