"returnless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From return + -less.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1845, Mrs. F. Beavan, Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick",
          "text": "Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes",
          "text": "They would do an immensity of labor on their returnless journey to the ocean.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, William Still, The Underground Railroad",
          "text": "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.",
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        "from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.)"
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        "not-comparable"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Visit to the venerable Charles Thompson, pages 94–95",
          "text": "—but now false Memory loosed\nHer time-worn cable from the wilder'd mind,\nBlotting the chart whereon it loved to gaze\nMid the dim ocean of returnless years.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Mary Baker Eddy, Pulpit and Press",
          "text": "Pass on, returnless year!",
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        }
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        "which will not return"
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        "(of something that is gone) which will not return"
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        "of something that is gone"
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɹəˈtɜɹnləs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "returnless"
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  "etymology_text": "From return + -less.",
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          "ref": "1845, Mrs. F. Beavan, Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick",
          "text": "Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes",
          "text": "They would do an immensity of labor on their returnless journey to the ocean.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, William Still, The Underground Railroad",
          "text": "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.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.)"
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        "not-comparable"
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          "ref": "1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Visit to the venerable Charles Thompson, pages 94–95",
          "text": "—but now false Memory loosed\nHer time-worn cable from the wilder'd mind,\nBlotting the chart whereon it loved to gaze\nMid the dim ocean of returnless years.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Mary Baker Eddy, Pulpit and Press",
          "text": "Pass on, returnless year!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "which will not return"
      ],
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        "(of something that is gone) which will not return"
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        "of something that is gone"
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      "ipa": "/ɹəˈtɜɹnləs/"
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