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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder. Old French consumerbor. Middle English consumen English consume Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English consumeless From consume + -less.
Meanings
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(archaic) indestructible; not able to be consumed or used up.
Thy blazing hearths, / From deep sulphureous pits, consumeless stores / Of fuel boast.
1754, Robert Dodsley, Public Virtue, page 46:How the purple waves / Scald their consumeless bodies.
1634, Francis Quarles, Emblems, divine and moral: