a. [f. BEGINNING vbl. sb. + -LESS.] Without beginning; uncreate. Hence Beginninglessness.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, ix. 119. And that time should be beginning lesse, what els is it to say, than that time is not time.
1602. J. Davies, Mirum in M. (1875), 16. All wise, all good, all great, beginninglesse.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 158. A beginningless, endless now.
1832. Carlyle, in Froude, Life, II. xii. 271. All speculation is beginningless and endless.
1865. Ginsburg, Kabbalah, Proc. L’pool. Lit. & Phil. Soc., XIX. 299. On the beginninglessness of the first and necessary first Emanation.
