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woundless, a.|ˈwuːndlɪs|
[f. wound n. + -less.]
1. Free from a wound or wounds; unwounded.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Oct. 41 Doubted Knights, whose woundlesse armour rusts. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vii. 353 He that steals home wound-less from the Wars, Is held a Coward. 1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 216 Undertaking to deliver them you in a short time woundlesse and friends. c1650Don Bellianis 42 So many sluggard knights lying in field, for all I see your person woundlesse. 1755Johnson. 1817Moore Lalla R., Fireworshippers iv. 565 And some who, grasp'd by those that die, Sink woundless with them. 1855M. Arnold Balder Dead ii. 18 All at night return to Odin's hall Woundless and fresh. 1891Meredith One of our Conq. I. xii. 226 His pride in appearing woundless and scarless.
†2. That cannot be wounded; invulnerable. Obs.
1604Shakes. Ham. iv. i. 44 (Qo. 2) Whose whisper..may misse our Name, And hit the woundlesse ayre. a1618Sylvester Maiden's Blush 338 Th' Angell..through the woundless Welkin swifter glides Then Zephyrus.
3. Inflicting no wound, unwounding, harmless.
1795Southey Joan of Arc viii. 346 And not a dart fell woundless there. |