spanless

English

Etymology

From span +‎ -less.

Adjective

spanless (comparative more spanless, superlative most spanless)

  1. Incapable of being spanned; vast.
    • 1896 January, Robert E. Speer, “The Foreign Missionary Work of the Salvation Army”, in The Missionary Review of the World, volume 9, page 29:
      What spanless oceans of unselfish, loving service, what spanless seas of victories, gilded and garnished by unvoiced sufferings!
    • 2021, Frances Minto Elliot, The Court Life in Spain:
      "As king," comes rining from every side of the shrouded summits, which catch the words and bear them from hollow, spanless depths to wild, yawning gorges among the black cliffs, down which green waters pour from the gloomy precincts of the cave where rest the remains of Onesinda.

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