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guileless, a.|ˈgaɪllɪs|
[f. guile n. + -less.]
Devoid of guile.
1728–46Thomson Spring 362 The plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal. a1763Shenstone Elegies xxvi. 23, I chas'd the guileless daughters of the plain, Nor dropt the chace, till Jessy was my prey. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xix, Than every freeborn glance confessed The guileless movements of her breast. 1844R. M. McCheyne in Mem. i. (1872) 18 The golden days of guileless youth. 1880W. S. Plumer in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxix. 1–8 True piety is..guileless, unspotted from the world.
Comb.a1834Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1874) 254 Cassio's full guileless-hearted wishes for the safety..of Othello.
Hence ˈguilelessly adv., ˈguilelessness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Guilelesness..Guilelesly. 1819Shelley Cenci iv. iv. 183 The truth of things..written on a brow of guilelessness. 1844H. Rogers Ess. (1860) III. 113 The simplicity, innocence, and guilelessness of child⁓hood. 1870Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xxxv. 7 Traps..into which they have fallen as guilelessly as beasts which stumble into concealed pits. |