Dateless (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth".
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Meaning 2
Of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; "dateless customs".
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Meaning 3
Not bearing a date; "a dateless letter".
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Examples
- The old manuscript was dateless, but its contents suggested it was written in the 15th century.
- The artist's signature was prominent, but the painting itself was dateless, leaving art historians to speculate about its origins.
- The dateless contract was invalid, as it did not specify when the agreement was made or when it would expire.
- The museum curator carefully handled the dateless scroll, trying to determine its age and significance.
- The historian was frustrated by the dateless documents, which made it difficult to reconstruct the timeline of events.
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Meaning 4
Unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty".
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