Definitions

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  • adverb Without a place.

Etymologies

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placeless +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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