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Dateless

adjective

Having no known beginning and presumably no end. Synonyms: endless, sempiternal. "Time is endless" , "Sempiternal truth"

Of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date.

Not bearing a date. Synonym: undated.

Unaffected by time. Synonym: timeless. "Helen's timeless beauty"

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"Dateless" Quotes from Famous Books

... which he had been admitted. Percy, even Sir William Scott, had been successively approached, but none had given a consideration to 'Johnson's Bozzy.' Such neglect, however, must have spurred him to exertion. The lively lady's anecdotage, dateless and confused, he could afford to despise as 'too void of method even for such a farrago,' as Horace Walpole said of it. But the solemn Hawkins, as an old friend and executor of Johnson's will, was a more dangerous rival. 'Observe how he talks of me,' ...

— James Boswell - Famous Scots Series • William Keith Leask

... that date, it ascends to nearly the commencement of the cycles in the sixty-first year of Hwang-ti, giving — not every year, but the years of which anything has been mentioned in history. From Hwang-ti also, it ascends through the dateless ages up to P'an-ku, the first of mortal sovereigns. Næ, 'The Boundaries of the Nation in the successive Dynasties.' This Work by the same author, and published in 1817, does for the boundaries of the empire the same service which the preceding renders to its chronology. Nu, ...

— THE CHINESE CLASSICS (PROLEGOMENA) • James Legge