searchless

[ surch-lis ]

adjective

1. unsearchable; inscrutable.

Word History and Origins

Origin of searchless¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; search + -less

Example Sentences

Add to this, great pride of character, so closely curtained as to be almost searchless to herself, with a passion for adventure and novel achievements, and she has in all an amount of temptation to poor human nature that can be overmastered only by strong conflicts and strong faith.

From Project Gutenberg

VICE: I have extinguished the noonday sun, In the carnage-smoke of battles won: Famine, Murder, Hell and Power Were glutted in that glorious hour Which searchless fate had stamped for me With the seal of her security… For the bloated wretch on yonder throne Commanded the bloody fray to rise.

From Project Gutenberg

He might man's deep and searchless heart display, And cast a light on those dim labyrinths, where _4205 Hope, near imagined chasms, is struggling with despair.

From Project Gutenberg

Thy darksome stillness, _505 Thy dazzling waves, thy loud and hollow gulfs, Thy searchless fountain, and invisible course Have each their type in me; and the wide sky.

From Project Gutenberg

VICE: I have extinguished the noonday sun, In the carnage-smoke of battles won: Famine, Murder, Hell and Power Were glutted in that glorious hour Which searchless fate had stamped for me With the seal of her security… For the bloated wretch on yonder throne Commanded the bloody fray to rise.

From Project Gutenberg