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tempestless en · ADJ

Etymology

From tempest + -less.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) Free from tempests; without tempests.
   • The maritime habits of all these peoples, the smooth tempestless waters of the seas that surround them, and the regular and reliable changes of the monsoons, point to an easy and rapid colonization. 1865, John Cameron, “Population: Aborigines—Malays—Chinese” (chapter V), in Our Tropical Possessions In Malayan India, Smith, Elder & Co., page 126:
   • ‘[…] It is impossible, however, in the limited space of a magazine sketch to speak separately of all the Atlantic’s great'sons, […] and from whose life wind and wave will never vanish until the old tar has finished his last round voyage, and anchored his ancient craft in a tempestless port.’ 1962, Warren Tute, Atlantic Conquest: The Men and Ships of the Glorious Age of Steam, Little, Brown and Company, Part Two: 1870—1914, page 116:
   • Heavenly, heavenly visions ! / Visions of virtue and holy devotion ; / Floating in peace on a tempestless ocean ; Love and forgiveness from eyes brightly glancing. 1850 April 13, George M. Radcliff, “Visions”, in The Anti-Slavery Bugle, volume 5, number 31, page 124:
   • And then I could but hope—but pray, / That her's a cloudless sky might be, / That tempestless might be her way, / Upon life's, tossing sea. 1840, Charles Taber Congdon, “A Vision of Beauty”, in Flowers Plucked by a Traveller on the Journey of Life, George W. Light, page 38:

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