reverseless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]reverseless (comparative more reverseless, superlative most reverseless)
- Not having a reverse
- (archaic) irreversible
- 1799, Anna Seward, Collection of Original Sonnets, To the Hon. Thomas Erskine
- E'en now thy lot shakes in the Urn, whence Fate
- Throws her pale edicts in reverseless doom!
- 1906, George Banghart Henry Swayze, Yarb and Cretine:
- A wave of quiet grief swept faithful Imogen with its tremulous chill at thought of the reverseless change a moment of time had wrought
- 1799, Anna Seward, Collection of Original Sonnets, To the Hon. Thomas Erskine
References
[edit]“reverseless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.