fadeless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fadeless (not comparable)
- Not fading; eternal
- 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, The Stranger's Flower, page 197:
- Stranger! new flowers in our vales are seen,
With a dazzling eye, and a fadeless green,—
- 1887, Various, The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland[1]:
- Palms of vict'ry thou shall bear, / And a crown of fadeless light / Will be given thee to wear, / And a robe of spotless white.
- 1892, Herman Melville, White Jacket[2]:
- That look is the fadeless, ever infantile immortality within.
- 1910, Helen Keller, The Song of the Stone Wall[3]:
- […] And beyond the radiant walls of living stones / They dreamed vast meadows and hills of fadeless green.
Translations
[edit]not fading
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