endlesse

English

endlesse (not comparable)

Obsolete spelling of endless.
- 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:
  It is a ſeeming peace, more dangerous then any warre ; and in outward appearance a quiet calme, but in truth the moſt perillous tempeſt, in which many millions of ſoules doe ſuffer ſhipwracke, and ſinke into the gulfe of endleſſe perdition.
- 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto XVIII. The Persecution.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] George Boddington, […], published 1651, →OCLC, stanza 35, page 350, column 1:
  [...] He ſcorn’d to chide / The ſtomackfull Feind, ſince ever-damned He / Sufficiently pays for his endleſſe Pride, [...]