fadeless

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Etymology[edit]

fade +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

fadeless (not comparable)

  1. 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.

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