tempestless

English

Etymology

From tempest +‎ -less.

Adjective

tempestless (comparative more tempestless, superlative most tempestless)

1. (uncommon) Free from tempests; without tempests.
   • 1840, Charles Taber Congdon, “A Vision of Beauty”, in Flowers Plucked by a Traveller on the Journey of Life, George W. Light, page 38:

     And then I could but hope—but pray, / That her's a cloudless sky might be, / That tempestless might be her way, / Upon life's, tossing sea.

   • 1850 April 13, George M. Radcliff, “Visions”, in The Anti-Slavery Bugle, volume 5, number 31, page 124:

     Heavenly, heavenly visions ! / Visions of virtue and holy devotion ; / Floating in peace on a tempestless ocean ; Love and forgiveness from eyes brightly glancing.

   • 1865, John Cameron, “Population: Aborigines—Malays—Chinese” (chapter V), in Our Tropical Possessions In Malayan India, Smith, Elder & Co., page 126:

     The maritime habits of all these peoples, the smooth tempestless waters of the seas that surround them, and the regular and reliable changes of the monsoons, point to an easy and rapid colonization.

   • 1962, Warren Tute, Atlantic Conquest: The Men and Ships of the Glorious Age of Steam, Little, Brown and Company, Part Two: 1870—1914, page 116:

     ‘ […] It is impossible, however, in the limited space of a magazine sketch to speak separately of all the Atlantic’s great'sons, […] and from whose life wind and wave will never vanish until the old tar has finished his last round voyage, and anchored his ancient craft in a tempestless port.’