different between stanchness vs stanchless
stanchness
English
Etymology
stanch +? -ness
Noun
stanchness (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being stanch.
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stanchless
English
Etymology
stanch +? -less
Adjective
stanchless (comparative more stanchless, superlative most stanchless)
- Incapable of being stanched or stopped.
- 1594, Michael Drayton, Matilda, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busby,[1]
- A stanchlesse hart, dead-wounded, euer bleeding,
- On whom that nere-fild vulture Loue sits feeding.
- 1819, Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, “Aspley Wood” Canto 2, stanza 26, in Aonian Hours and Other Poems, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 2nd edition, 1820, p. 82,[2]
- We see, but cannot heal the stanchless wound,
- We share its gushing sorrow, still it bleeds;
- 1856, Sydney Dobell, “Home, Wounded” in England in Time of War, London: Smith, Elder & Co., p. 105,[3]
- And while I listed long,
- Day rose, and still he sang,
- And all his stanchless song,
- As something falling unaware,
- Fell out of the tall trees he sang among,
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, New York: Viking, 1975, “Sutcliffe, the Venetian Documents,” p. 209,[4]
- In his little red notebook the following random thoughts formed and were jotted down, like the slow interior overflow of a stanchless music.
- 1594, Michael Drayton, Matilda, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busby,[1]
- (obsolete, figuratively) Incapable of being satisfied.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[5]
- With this there grows
- In my most ill-composed affection such
- A stanchless avarice that, were I king,
- I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, London: M. Lownes et al., Song 1, p. 9,[6]
- This loosness to their spoyle the Troians did allure,
- Who fiercely them assail’d: where stanchlesse furie rap’t
- The Grecians in so fast, that scarcely one escap’t:
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[5]
Synonyms
- (incapable of being stanched): unstaunchable
- (incapable of being satisfied): unquenchable, insatiable.
Anagrams
- snatchless
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