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graspless, a.|ˈgrɑːsplɪs, -æ-| [f. grasp n. + -less.] a. Without grasp or grip; loose, relaxed. b. Not admitting of a grasp, i.e. of being grasped.
1794Coleridge On Friend Who Died of Fever 43 From my graspless hand Drop Friendship's precious pearls, like hour-glass sand. 1849Tait's Mag. XVI. 348/2 Where Past and Future wholly are submerged In one vast, graspless, Present infinite. 1886Blackw. Mag. CXL. 259 In its graspless hold her hand Felt that the sceptre shivered. 1894Hall Caine Manxman vi. x. 390 It fell from his graspless fingers to the floor. |