Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without return; admitting no return.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admitting no return.
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- adjective from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.)
- adjective which will not return
Etymologies
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Examples
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—Another year not only gives an accession to their numbers, but removes, perhaps to a returnless distance, the chance of their recovery.
The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994
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—Another year not only gives an accession to their numbers, but removes, perhaps to a returnless distance, the chance of their recovery.
The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994
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They have burst the bands of political faith -- They have melted the cement of affection, and driven to a returnless distance, the best and dearest of friends.
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You must hear the judge's decision, remorselessly giving up the woman with her children born and unborn, into the hands of their claimants -- by them to be carried to the slave prison, and thence to be sold to a returnless distance from the remaining but scattered fragments of her once happy family.
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It was the head of this family whom H.F. Averill proposed to doom to returnless exile and life-long slavery.
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I know that those who are not familiar with the working of "the peculiar institution," can scarcely imagine any one so totally devoid of all natural affection as to sell his own offspring into returnless bondage.
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery Ellen Craft
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He accompanied it with a present of a bottle of very good champagne, requesting us to drink it (which we _did_, not having the fear of temperance societies or Maine-law liquor bills before our eyes) in honor of his having dropped another year into the returnless past.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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On February 18, 1909, I left the _Roosevelt_ on what might be a returnless journey.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888
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It was the head of this family whom H.F. Averill proposed to doom to returnless exile and life-long slavery.
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It was the head of this family whom H.F. Averill proposed to doom to returnless exile and life-long slavery.
Harriet The Moses of Her People Bradford, Sarah H. 1886
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