compass
noun
an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.
compassless
-
a word derived from
compass.
Example Sentences
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They must inevitably stray from the true direction, striking into that infernal circle which imprisons all things blind and all things compassless.
From The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Clifford, while you are here, I’m like a bark distressed and compassless, That by a beacon steers; when you’re away, That bark alone and tossing miles at sea!
From The Hunchback by Henry Morley
He is Lord of the Uncleared Ground, and may wander through it in his compassless, irresponsible way, never feeling that he is lost, for he has never had any definite bearings to lose.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
They penetrate, however, rudderless or compassless into the vast ocean of the "light ineffable," and again, like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, "agressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi."
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
Thenceforward the ship was to toss uncommanded, objectless and compassless, at the mercy of every tempest.
From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd
