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tombless

tombless adjective: without a tomb.

Adjective

tombless (not comparable)

  1. Without a tomb.
    • […] or there we’ll sit,
      Ruling in large and ample empery
      O’er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,
      Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
      Tombless, with no remembrance over them.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • But when all is past, it is humbling to tread
      O’er the weltering field of the tombless dead,1816 February 13, [Lord Byron], “The Siege of Corinth”, in The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, London: […] [T[homas] Davison] for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XVII, page 27, lines...

Origin of tombless

From tomb + -less.

Words formed from tombless

Questions about tombless

What does tombless mean?
Tombless means without a tomb.
What part of speech is tombless?
Tombless is an adjective.

Words near tombless in the dictionary

  1. tombfuls
  2. Tombi
  3. tombic
  4. Tombigbee
  5. tombing
  6. tombless
  7. tomblessness
  8. tomblet
  9. tomblets
  10. tomblike
  11. Tomblin

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