Sabbathless
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a word derived from
Sabbath.
Sabbathnounthe Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as the day of rest and religious observance among Jews and some Christians.
Example Sentences
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It was Dante's wind, bearing lost lovers and cranes: Sabbathless Satan, toiling and turmoiling.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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For prayer, indeed, says this venerable man, was the Sabbath ordained: yet prayer itself is Sabbathless, and admits of no rest, no intermission at all.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Thomas Clarkson
"Sabbathless Satan,—he who his unglad Task ever plies midst rotatory burnings For wrath divine has made him like a wheel In that red realm from whence are no returnings."
From Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches by John Greenleaf Whittier