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▪ I. stayless, a.1|ˈsteɪlɪs|
Also 6 stailes, 6–7 stailesse.
[f. stay n.3 + -less.]
1. Not to be stayed or stopped, ever-moving, unceasing, ceaseless.
1578Blennerhasset Mirr. Mag., Carassus ix, They fled the fielde: They made me muse, to see how fast they striude, With staylesse steppes, eche one his life to shielde. 1590C'tess Pembroke Antonie 486 And neuer can our weaknes turne awry The stailes course of powerfull destenie. 1611J. Davies (Heref.) Sco. Folly cxlvii. (Grosart) 25 That's staylesse time, which he doth precious hold. 1825Hogg Q. Hynde 24 Onward he drove with stayless shock. a1851Moir Poet. Wks. (1852) II. 341 Though years in stayless current roll. 1867G. Macdonald Poems 109 Stayless of foot, he turned not from the sea.
2. Without stay or permanence, ever-changing, unsettled.
c1572Gascoigne Fruites Warre lxxiii, In meane while yet hopeth to aduaunce His staylesse state, by sworde, by speare, by shielde. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxviii. iv, A waiward, stubborn, stailesse, faithlesse race. 1590L. Andrewes 96 Serm., Lent ii. (1629) 277 We are but let see the wandring and staylesse estate we were in, till God vouchsafed to send us this gracious conduct. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake 290 She leaned to the lee, and she girdled the wave; Aloft on the stayless verge she hung. 1881G. Macdonald Mary Marston II. 20 The bond between them was an eternal one, yet were they separated by a gulf of unrelation. Not a mountain range, but a stayless nothingness parted them.
▪ II. ˈstayless, a.2
[f. stay n.2 + -less.]
1. Without stay or support, unsupported.
1587Higgins Mirr. Mag., Pinnar Lenuoye ii, If hee vnstatelike stammer out the same, With staylesse staggering footed verse, by ame. c1590Faire Em i. ii. 33 Although our outward pomp be thus abased, And thralde to drudging, staylesse of the world. 1590Lodge Euphues Gold. Leg. F 2 b, Oh staylesse youth, by errour so misguided. 1607J. Davies (Heref.) Summa Totalis (Grosart) 19/2 It was his will, That man, made stailesse, so should fall, and rise. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. I. 291 Left helpless and stayless.
2. Unsupported by stays or corsets.
1880Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family iii, The girl's slender, loose and stayless waist. 1883Philad. Press 7 June 9 A stayless waist with divided underskirts.
Hence ˈstaylessness.
1883Philad. Press 7 June 9 Staylessness..is not by itself sufficient unto salvation in this matter, nor is the divided skirt by itself sufficient. |