oceanful

English

Etymology

ocean + -ful

Noun

oceanful (plural oceanfuls or oceansful)

  1. as much as an ocean can hold.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1884, The Homiletic Review, page 733:
      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.
    • 1983, R. R. Sundara Rao, Bhakti Theology in the Telugu Hymnal, page 76:
      It is to destroy the oceanful of sins of humanity.

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