timeless
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Definitions & Usage
Eternal.
Not affected by time; ageless.
(obsolete) Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
Not decreasing over time in quality and appeal.
Without a time limit; untimed.
Outside of time; extratemporal.
A gene encoding an essential protein that regulates circadian rhythm, normally written in italics: timeless.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“When Worlds, that count his Circles now, unhing’d, (Fate the loud Signal sounding) headlong rush To timeless Night and Chaos, whence they rose.”
— c. 1743, Edward Young, “Night 2: On Time, Death, and Friendship”, in The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality:
“Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death?”
— c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act V, scene 4:
“The lamp of day is quench’d beneath the deep, And soft approach the balmy hours of sleep: Nor fits it to prolong the heav’nly feast Timeless, indecent, but retire to rest.”
— 1725, Alexander, transl. Pope, The Odyssey of Homer, book 3, London: Bernard Lintot, translation of The Odyssey by Homer, page 143, lines 427–430: