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beginningless

adj

Etymology

From beginning + -less.

  1. derived from *biginnaną✻ — “to begin”
  2. inherited from *biginnandz✻
  3. inherited from *beginnende✻
  4. inherited from begynnyng
  5. suffixed as beginningless — “beginning + less”

Definitions

  1. Incomplete for lack of a beginning.

    • But besides this imperfect beginningless story, entitled "William Montgomery," we find in the volume another, of which the title-page gives no hint.

  2. Eternal

    Eternal; uncreated; having always existed.

    • Backwards, it spreads to the beginningless beginning. Forwards, it spreads to the endless end. We are always in the middle.
    • Beginningless time is one of those concepts which, in our human state, we find difficult to comprehend.

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Derived

beginninglessness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beginningless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA