Meanings
- not comparableWithout a shore, or with no shore in sight; boundless.
1932, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight (1931), translated by Stuart Gilbert, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1942, p. 83, A shoreless night, the pilot thought, leading to no anchorage (for every port was unattainable, it seemed), nor toward dawn.
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Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves / Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves;
1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature, London: J. Johnson, Canto I, lines 295-6Our earthly fire again, no matter how fierce or widespread it may be, is always of a limited extent; but the lake of fire in hell is boundless, shoreless and bottomless.
1916, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 138In other words, the infinite, unlimited and shoreless ocean now is made to look upon itself through the drop as merely the limited drop of that infinite, unlimited and shoreless ocean...
1955, Meher Baba, God speaks: the theme of creation and its purpose
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Polish bezbrzeżny
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Russian безбре́жный
- безбре́жный (bezbréžnyj)Translations
Ukrainian безбере́жний
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shoreless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoreless
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