oceanful
nounEtymology From ocean + -ful.
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The amount that an ocean can hold.
- Does He go forth to create water, He pours it out, not by the cupful, but by a riverful, a lakeful, an oceanful, pouring it out until all the earth has enough to drink, and enough with which to wash.1875, J V D. S, Choice readings for every day in the year, selected [by J.V.D.S.] from the works of T.D.W. Talmage, page 181:
- It wrestled with the tempests, it spread roots and arms a hundred feet, and towered into the air, drinking with its myriads of leaves sunshine and air by the oceanful, and appropriating to itself wood by the cord every year.1884, The Homiletic Review, page 733:
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- It is to destroy the oceanful of sins of humanity.1983, R. R. Sundara Rao, Bhakti Theology in the Telugu Hymnal, page 76:
- Related terms
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