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loveless, a.|ˈlʌvlɪs|
[f. love n.1 + -less.]
1. Having no love;
a. not feeling love;
b. not loved.
1311Pol. Songs (1839) 255 For frend is fo, the lond is loveles. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 98 Thus I liue loueles lyk a luther dogge. 1390Gower Conf. I. 259 Envie, which is loveles, And Pride, which is lawles. Ibid. III. 362 Sche which deide gulteles For love, and yit was loveles. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 72 A lorde or state whom many men doth drede With loueles feare. 1599Shakes. etc. Pass. Pilgr. xv, Long was the combat doubtfull, that loue with loue did fight To leave the master louelesse, or kill the gallant knight. 1612Shelton Quix. I. i. (1620) 7 The Knight Errant that is louelesse, resembles a tree that wants leaues and fruit. 1735Pope Ep. Lady 125 From loveless youth to unrespected age No Passion gratify'd except her Rage. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 149 The anxiety to be admired is a loveless passion. 1877Dowden Shaks. Prim. vi. §8. 79 An absolute cynic, loveless and alone. Ibid. 80 The loveless solitude, haunted by terrible visions of his victims. 1901H. Black Culture & Restr. xii. 372 A loveless saint thus becomes a contradiction in terms.
†2. Unlovely. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny II. 432 These [Tortoises] are ilfavored to see to, and yet as louelesse as they be, they are not without some medicinable vertues.
Hence ˈlovelessly adv., ˈlovelessness.
1616J. Lane Cont. Sqr.'s T. x. 189 Was never love more lovelesselie requitted. 1823Byron Stanzas to a Hindoo Air, How the long night flags lovelessly and slowly. 1852Robertson Serm. Ser. ii. 167 Men of withered affections excuse their lovelessness by talking largely of the affection due to God. 1891F. Paget Spirit Discipl. (ed. 2) 214 The mysterious terror of everlasting lovelessness is seizing on his heart. |