returnless — 영어 사전

형용사

1. from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.)

   용법

   • not-comparable

   예문

   Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow.

   They would do an immensity of labor on their returnless journey to the ocean.

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   You must hear the judge's decision, remorselessly giving up the woman with her children born and unborn, into the hands of their claimants--by them to be carried to the slave prison, and thence to be sold to a returnless distance from the remaining but scattered fragments of her once happy family.

2. which will not return

   용법

   • not-comparable
   • of something that is gone

   예문

   —but now false Memory loosed Her time-worn cable from the wilder'd mind, Blotting the chart whereon it loved to gaze Mid the dim ocean of returnless years.—

   Pass on, returnless year!