stanchless

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English

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Etymology

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From stanch +‎ -less.

Adjective

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stanchless (comparative more stanchless, superlative most stanchless)

  1. Incapable of being stanched or stopped.
    • 1594, Michael Drayton, Matilda[1], London: Nicholas Ling and John Busby:
      A stanchlesse hart, dead-wounded, euer bleeding,
      On whom that nere-fild vulture Loue sits feeding.
    • 1819, Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, “Aspley Wood” Canto 2, stanza 26, in Aonian Hours and Other Poems, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 2nd edition, 1820, p. 82,[2]
      We see, but cannot heal the stanchless wound,
      We share its gushing sorrow, still it bleeds;
    • 1856, Sydney Dobell, “Home, Wounded”, in England in Time of War[3], London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 105:
      And while I listed long,
      Day rose, and still he sang,
      And all his stanchless song,
      As something falling unaware,
      Fell out of the tall trees he sang among,
    • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, “Sutcliffe, the Venetian Documents”, in Monsieur[4], New York: Viking, published 1975, page 209:
      In his little red notebook the following random thoughts formed and were jotted down, like the slow interior overflow of a stanchless music.
  2. (obsolete, figurative) Incapable of being satisfied.

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