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fadeless

American  
[feyd-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

Example Sentences

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Freedom has again crowned her with a fresh and fadeless wreath.

From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton

If the queen of Caria is deserving of praise for her martial valor, the name of the heroic wife of the gunner, should be woven with hers in a fadeless wreath of song.

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by Clement, J. (Jesse)

Above all rose the dome whose lights were fadeless.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard

So flower by flower comes into view Kept fadeless by the Olympian dew For startled eyes; and yet not you, Sweetwilliam.

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

Then trace no saddening sentence o'er the place Where rests the victor in a heavenward race; Meeter the laurel and the trumpet-strain For one who fought a fadeless crown to gain!

From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various