stanchless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A stanchlesse hart, dead-wounded, euer bleeding, On whom that nere-fild vulture Loue sits feeding."
- "1819, Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, “Aspley Wood” Canto 2, stanza 26, in Aonian Hours and Other Poems, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 2nd edition, 1820, p. 82, We see, but cannot heal the stanchless wound, We share its gushing sorrow, still it bleeds;"
- "And while I listed long, Day rose, and still he sang, And all his stanchless song, As something falling unaware, Fell out of the tall trees he sang among,"
- "In his little red notebook the following random thoughts formed and were jotted down, like the slow interior overflow of a stanchless music."
- "With this there grows In my most ill-composed affection such A stanchless avarice that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands,"
- "This loosness to their spoyle the Troians did allure, Who fiercely them assail’d: where stanchlesse furie rap’t The Grecians in so fast, that scarcely one escap’t:"
Etymology
Etymology tree English stanch Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English stanchless From stanch + -less.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more stanchless (comparative)
most stanchless (superlative)