Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from storms; without storm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without storms.
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- adjective Without a
storm or stormy weather.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The season was May, the weather stormless; we were promised a prosperous voyage.
The Last Man 2003
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It was as if she could lift her hands and clutch the silent, stormless potency that roved everywhere, waiting.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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If some of the original problems have been eliminated, this, however, does not mean that we face the prospect of plain sailing in a stormless sea.
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And his native sagacity (made keener as well as more comprehensive now that it looked down from that remote and stormless anchorage), revealed to him that there was at least the possibility of the mightiest earthly fabric breaking up before him in unexpected collapse.
John Knox A. Taylor Innes
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Falmouth; and, revived by the soft breezes and the ship's stormless progress, he sat in his easy-chair in the cabin, enjoying the brightest thoughts of all his life.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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Midway between these semi-aquatic Polynesians and those Arctic tribes who are forced out upon the deep, to struggle with it rather than associate with it, we find the inhabitants of the Mediterranean islands and peninsulas, who are favored by the mild climate and the tideless, fogless, stormless character of their sea.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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As the wind beat against the Ark on wild nights, so that we could hardly tell which was the wind and which was the roar of the maddened sea, and still those voices chanted hopefully of the "stormless home beyond the river," etc., the words began to strike on something deeper than my physical or intellectual sense, and that not rudely.
Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
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Roll wave-like up the stormless strand of dreams; --
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Who long have swept the harps of God by stormless seas in heaven?
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Fullerton, looking, as Ferrier thought, like a vision from a stormless world of beatified souls.
A Dream of the North Sea James Runciman 1871
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