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Definition of Graveless
1. a. Without a grave; unburied.
Definition of Graveless
1. Adjective. Without a grave; unburied. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Graveless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graveless
Literary usage of Graveless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sophocles by Sophocles (1902)
"Slight the pain to me, To meet this fate ; but had I borne to see My mother's
son a graveless corpse remain, Painful it had been : now I feel no pain. ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1869)
"... joy of all living things, except the prisoner of Chillón, by his brother's grave.
We write it down from a memory of thirty rough years, not graveless. ..."
3. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"Over thick graves grown green, Over pale bones that graveless lie and bleach,
Over torn human hearts her path doth reach. And Heaven's dear pity lean. ..."
4. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"... of this pelleted storm Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile Have
buried them for prey ! 2 This is one of the passages in Shakespeare which ..."
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