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warless, a.|ˈwɔːlɪs|
In 5 werreles.
[f. war n.1 + -less.]
Free or exempt from war; not engaging in war.
1436Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 203 And thus shulde everi lande one with another..life togedre werreles in unité. 1857Chamb. Jrnl. VIII. 256 The pale, pure crescent in the warless heavens. 1866Neale Sequences & Hymns 6 So him they lead to warless rest. 1886Tennyson Locksley Hall 60 Yrs. After 165 Earth at last a warless world, a single race, a single tongue. Ibid. 170 Universal ocean softly washing all her warless Isles. Ibid. 172 Who can fancy warless men?
Hence ˈwarlessly adv., in a warless manner.
1887Harper's Mag. July 267 Little flags would mark battles all over the map of their country—the country Mademoiselle Couper despised as so hopelessly, warlessly insignificant. |