"shoreless" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Etymology: From shore + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|shore|less}} shore + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} shoreless (not comparable)
  1. Without a shore, or with no shore in sight; boundless. Tags: not-comparable Translations (Translations): bezbrzeżny (Polish), безбре́жный (bezbréžnyj) (Russian), безбере́жний (bezberéžnyj) (Ukrainian)
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          "ref": "1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature, London: J. Johnson, Canto I, lines 295-6:",
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