Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being spanned or measured.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being spanned.
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- adjective Incapable of being
spanned .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, so sluggish is their nature, to them the gulf between well-meaning and well-doing is well-nigh spanless.
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It is possible for two races of different degrees of development to live side by side, and participate in daily superficial intercourse, using the same language and employing like symbols of expression, and yet be, as a matter of fact, separated by a spanless chasm.
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There are negroes who commit unspeakable offences, and will do so as long as such crimes are not made odious, and vice and virtue cleft asunder by a chasm of spanless width.
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To their faith already was unrolled over them that new firmament in whose spanless welkin no cloudy tempests ever gather and break, and the serene lights never fade nor go down.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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