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stanchless

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[stawnch-lis, stahnch-, stanch-] / ˈstɔntʃ lɪs, ˈstɑntʃ-, ˈstæntʃ- /

adjective

  1. not to be stanched.

    We pressed more bandages to his stanchless wound, but we couldn't save him.

  2. incessant.

    a stanchless torrent of words.

Other Word Forms

  • stanchlessly adverb

Etymology

Origin of stanchless

First recorded in 1595–1605; stanch 1 + -less

Example Sentences

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"Skoal to the stanchless flux," young Durrell ends one letter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Untiring wielder of the nimblest quill That ever shed the stanchless inky rill Upon the virgin whiteness of the quire.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

Alas, the deep insufferable doom,   The stanchless wound!

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

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