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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
numberless
adjective
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▪ All at once my numberless days were numbered.
▪ In wooded recesses were numberless springs of pure water and numerous small lakes.
▪ Keep away from the deep-fried scampi and mixed seafood and the numberless fish in wine and butter sauces.
▪ Sad and profound chants are intoned in the wind and I am in the presence of a numberless and devout congregation.
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Numberless

Numberless \Num"ber*less\, a. Innumerable; countless.

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numberless

a. Without number; having too many to count.

WordNet
numberless

adj. too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad(a), multitudinous, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable]

Usage examples of "numberless".

And, although amid the ever-growing degeneracy of mankind, this primeval word of revelation was falsified by the admixture of various errors, and overlaid and obscured by numberless and manifold fictions, inextricably confused, and disfigured almost beyond the power of recognition, still a profound inquiry will discover in heathenism many luminous vestiges of primitive Truth.

After numberless trials with fresh leaves immersed in a solution of this strength, I have never seen the aggregating action transmitted at nearly so slow a rate.

The eternal asker of answers becomes as the darkness, Or as a wind blown over a myriad forest, Or as the numberless voices of long-drawn rains.

But when I reflect upon after events of my life I am not astonished that The Leads proved ineffectual, for the numberless vicissitudes which I have gone through since have not cured me--my disorder, indeed, being of the incurable kind.

Here he has found numberless historical inscriptions, besides a text in hieroglyphics which may cast light on the origin of the cuneiform characters.

Scarcely, however, had they left the boats than every gun still serviceable in the fort, with numberless gingalls, rifles, and muskets, were directed upon them.

Muriel, and Ward--belonged to the myriads of the earth, to those numberless swarms that with ceaseless pullulation fill the streets of life with their grey immemorable tides.

Great Britain, after all the treaties she had made, and the numberless subsidies she had granted, should not have an ally left, except one prince, so embarrassed in his own affairs, that he could grant lier no succour, whatever assistance he might demand.

The act to discourage the retail of spirituous liquors had incensed the populace to such a degree, as occasioned numberless tumults in the cities of London and Westminster.

The like may be said of Diodorus, Josephus, Cedrenus, Syncellus, Zonaras, Eustathius: and numberless more.

You will cut short all this twaddle about her great wealth and Western ways and numberless beaux.

The wind continued sweeping past the two of us while the numberless leaves of the zelkova tree rustled in the darkness.

He asserted that the scheme he was about to propose would remove all these inconveniencies, prevent numberless frauds, perjuries, and false entries, and add two or three hundred thousand pounds per annum to the public revenue.

It was in this state of mind that I began to read up Bellarmine on the one hand, and numberless Anglican writers on the other.

Sinbad came ashore there and had manifold adventures, and numberless wrecks bestrewed the sands.