timeless

CEFRB2

/tˈaɪmləs/

adjective

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Jamin's perfectly symmetrical features give her an ethereal and timeless beauty.
Saint Augustine's "Confessions" tells a timeless tale of intellectual search ending in orthodoxy.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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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

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