| 释义 |
viceless, a.|ˈvaɪslɪs|
[f. vice n.1 1.]
Free from vice.
1560Rolland Seven Sages 5 To that effect, that he may viceless be, Of all vices, and sic thing as gais wrang. 1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. i. xlix. 27 Galba..rather vicelesse than greatly vertuous. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ii. (1675) 301 Errours about Religion,..maintain'd by Men that are resolute, and viceless. 1671–4Lady Warwick Autobiog. (Percy Soc.) 164 Mr. Henry St. John was very good natured and viceless. Ibid., The young men were not viceless. 1847J. Halliday Rustic Bard 321 Viceless virtue, undecaying, Shed her lustre on our name. 1890Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 575/1 Those who are themselves sinless and viceless. |