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sunless, a.|ˈsʌnlɪs|
[f. sun n.1 + -less.]
Destitute of the sun or of the sun's rays; not illumined by the sun; dark or dull through absence of sunlight.
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. i. 6 Vnlesse thou wilt cut or plash away with bill The shadie boughs of sunlesse soile. 1697Dryden æneid iii. 267 Three starless Nights the doubtful Navy strays Without Distinction, and three Sunless Days. 1788Cowper Let. to W. Bagot 19 Mar., Sunless skies and freezing blasts. 1829Scott Anne of G. xv, The sunless waves appeared murmuring for their victim. 1842Macaulay Armada 42 The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves. 1876R. Bridges Growth of Love lxvii, A sunless and half-hearted summer. 1880Meredith Tragic Com. vi. (1892) 86 Sunless rose the morning.
fig.1850Blackie æschylus I. 37 Ofttimes we sorrowed from a sunless soul. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 357, I lived for years a stunted sunless life.
b. nonce-use. Existing without the sun.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vi. ix, The Sunne lesse starres, these lights the Sunne distain.
Hence ˈsunlessness, the condition of being sunless; absence of the sun.
1856Chamb. Jrnl. 20 Dec. 390/1 Their blood scurvy-filled by the four months' sunlessness. 1898G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum 137 Another twelve hours of sunlessness. |