Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a thaw; not thawing: as, a thawless winter. The winter gives them (flowers) rest under thawless serenity of snow.
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- adjective rare eternally
frozen ; not prone tothaw
Etymologies
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Examples
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All hushed as we had been, the very striking of the air with our persons had sufficed to disturb the repose of this thawless region; and we had hardly left the cavern, before vast blocks of ice, detaching themselves from the roof, fell, and covered the human image we had deposited within.
The Last Man 2003
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He played upon a fourteen-jointed flute of solid gold, with diamond holes, and keys carved out of thawless ice.
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All hushed as we had been, the very striking of the air with our persons had sufficed to disturb the repose of this thawless region; and we had hardly left the cavern, before vast blocks of ice, detaching themselves from the roof, fell, and covered the human image we had deposited within.
III.8 1826
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All hushed as we had been, the very striking of the air with our persons had sufficed to disturb the repose of this thawless region; and we had hardly left the cavern, before vast blocks of ice, detaching themselves from the roof, fell, and covered the human image we had deposited within.
The Last Man 1826
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All hushed as we had been, the very striking of the air with our persons had sufficed to disturb the repose of this thawless region; and we had hardly left the cavern, before vast blocks of ice, detaching themselves from the roof, fell, and covered the human image we had deposited within.
The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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