Meanings
- poeticrareuncountableThe quality of being overtakeless (impossible to overtake or surpass).
The overtakelessness of those / Who have accomplished Death, / Majestic is to me beyond / The majesties of Earth.
a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “[Part 5: The Single Hound] XC”, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, centenary edition, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, published November 1930, →OCLC, page 2541 more example
But more often than not she trusts that rare sensitivity of hers to take her slimly down, letting it intuitively choose her way and hunch her toward encounters. And it is only in those moments of overtakelessness, after she has gone through a world of as ifs, that we rest with her at the ends of her poems.
1984, Susan Strayer Deal, The Dark Is a Door, Boise, I.D.: Ahsahta Press, →ISBN, page iii
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