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Definition of Interminable
1. Adjective. Tiresomely long; seemingly without end. "An interminable sermon"
Definition of Interminable
1. a. Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.
Definition of Interminable
1. Adjective. Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending. ¹
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Definition of Interminable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interminable
Literary usage of Interminable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Financing of Public Service Corporations by Milton Berge Ignatius (1918)
"In England interminable securities issued by private corporations are not ...
Closely allied to interminable bonds are those with a date of maturity so far ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1914)
"... and the perfectly unjust man; but it would be an interminable task, omitting
nothing, to portray in detail the several states and all their customs. ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"traverses the interminable plateaux of Arragon or Castile, and looks around him
and finds not a tree in sight, and asks the reason, is told that the ..."
4. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"ice and snow through short days and interminable nights. From this spot we went
out full of hope in April and again in May, and now in October we have come ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"to intervene in the interminable strife for precedence between the Patriarchs of
Grado and of Aquileia (Dándolo, Chron., IX, 2, n. 2). ..."
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