oceanful
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oceanful (plural oceanfuls or oceansful)
- 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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