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fadeless

American  
[fayd-lis] / ˈfeɪd lɪs /

adjective

  1. not fading or diminishing; unfading.


fadeless British  
/ ˈfeɪdlɪs /

adjective

  1. not subject to fading

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of fadeless

First recorded in 1645–55; fade + -less


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So on eternal dials that God may hold, And those more humble in the human heart, No bitter deeds their passing hours impart; Kind deeds alone are marked in fadeless gold!

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various

Joy of the desolate, light of the straying, Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure!

From The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

And with it are enshrined in fadeless green, the names of many whose eyes have long been closed upon the wars and joys of this earth.

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various

The second line of the second stanza was also changed by Dr. Hastings, the original version by Moore being: Hope, when all others die, fadeless and pure.

From The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

"If the Serpent hadn't interrupted their tête-à-tête—there they would be to this day—wandering love-sick among fadeless flowers, with nothing, nothing, nothing before them but an eternity of love-making!"

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives

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