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viewless, a.|ˈvjuːlɪs|
[f. view n. or v.]
1. That cannot be perceived by the eye; incapable of being seen; invisible. (Cf. sightless a. 2.)
Originally and chiefly poet.; in the 19th cent. not unusual in prose, but frequently as a direct echo of quot. 1603.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 124 To be imprison'd in the viewlesse windes. 1634Milton Comus 92 But I hear the tread Of hatefull steps, I must be viewles now. 1651Davenant Gondibert i. ii. 56 That viewless thing call'd Life. 1718Pope Odyss. vi. 25 Light as the viewless air, the warrior maid Glides through the valves. 1762Sir W. Jones Arcadia (1777) 105 This pipe, on which the god of shepherds play'd When love inflam'd him, and the viewless maid, Receive. 1794Mrs. Piozzi Synon. II. 328 Whence is heard the heavy roar of waters dashing through a bottom almost viewless. c1810Wordsw. Poems Nat. Indep. & Liberty ii. xxx, Gone are they, viewless as the buried dead. 1821Scott Pirate vi, The air of majesty with which..she addressed the viewless spirit of the tempest. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xxiii, The speed of the current in her veins was just then as swift as it was viewless. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 389 We shall find ourselves more and more, as by irresistible viewless hands, caught and drawn towards the Christian revelation.
absol.1831Campbell View from St. Leonards 88 The imaginative power That links the viewless with the visible.
2. Devoid of a view or prospect.
1840R. Bremner Excurs. Denmark, etc. II. 350 Long and viewless, but with lofty, handsome houses on each side.
3. Having no views or opinions.
1885A. M. Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 72 The turbid sense of groping and viewless ignorance. 1892Pall Mall G. 4 May 1/3 The passion-less, conscience-less, viewless creature of the Chronicle's fancy portrait.
Hence ˈviewlessly adv., invisibly.
1828Mrs. Hemans Spanish Chapel vi, For something viewlessly around Of solemn influence dwelt. 1842Tait's Mag. IX. 21 They rose higher and viewlessly in distance on either side. 1890Lippincott's Mag. May 668 Viewlessly your whole being has become slowly interorbed with hers. |