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flameless, a.|ˈfleɪmlɪs|
[f. flame n. + -less.]
Devoid of flame; burning without flame.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. i. Trophies 55 A fire so great Could not live flameless long. 1638G. Sandys Par. Div. Poems, Lament. Jer. ii. 7 Jehova..forsakes His flame⁓lesse Altar. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1857) I. i. vii. x. 219 It burns..flameless, as charred coals do. 1884Swinburne in 19th Cent. May 775 The flameless fire of imaginative thought. |