oceanful

English

Etymology

ocean +‎ -ful

Noun

oceanful (plural oceanfuls or oceansful)

1. The amount that 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.

See also

• seaful