adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a timeless manner. a. Unseasonably, out of due time. arch. or Obs. b. Without reference to time, independently of the passage of time.
1625. Milton, Death Fair Infant, i. Soft silken Primrose fading timelesslie.
c. 1750. Shenstone, Ruin’d Abbey, 73. The cruel meed Of virtuous ardour timelessly display’d.
1824. Blackw. Mag., XVI. 580. Destined to be severed timelessly and know no fruitage.
1833. J. H. Newman, Arians, II. v. (1876), 210. Brought into existence ‘timelessly,’ independent of that succession of second causes.
So Timelessness, the quality of being timeless.
1855. Buffalo Morn. Express, 28 March, 1/7. What then concerns the rest—what heed survives of timelessness or nothingness, bliss or chaos, entity or annihilation?
1872. Spectator, 7 Sept., 1138. Even nature almost witnesses to the timelessness of the Divine Being.
1894. Swete, Apost. Creed, iii. 33. Because Tertullian has not grasped the timelessness of the mutual relations of the Divine Life.
