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lustless, a. Now rare or Obs.|ˈlʌstlɪs|
[f. lust n. + less.]
†1. Without vigour or energy: = listless. Obs.
c1325Old Age xi. in E.E.P. (1862) 150 Þe tunge..lostles lowteþ in uch a liþ. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iv. ix. (Tollem. MS.), A verry flewmatike man is in the body lustles [L. deses], heuy and slow. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3881 Whan þat þe paunche is ful, A fume clymbith vp in-to þe heed, And makiþ a man al lustles and al dul. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 2 Tim. 24 Preache the worde of the ghospel stronglye, nether beyng frayed with aduersitie nor lustles in prosperitie. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 20 For in his lustlesse limbs..A shaking fever raignd continually. 1611Cotgr., Detalenté,..vnwilling, lustlesse, vndisposed, out of the humor. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xiii. 56 The Throstell, with shrill Sharps; as purposely he song T'awake the lustlesse Sunne.
†2. Joyless; without pleasure or delight. Obs.
1508Dunbar Tua mariit wemen 441 Ȝone lustlese led so lelely scho luffit hir husband. a1585Sidney Arcadia, etc. (1622) 493 A lustless song.
3. Without lust or sexual appetite.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. iii. (1590) C 7, He shall be made a chast and lustlesse Eunuke. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xxii. xxiv. (1620) 848 The time shall come when we shall doe nothing but enioy our (lustlesse) beauties. 1611Cotgr., Priapisme, a lustlesse extention, or swelling of the yard.
Hence † ˈlustlessness.
1556Olde Antichrist 5 To dryue all lustlesnesse and sluggish drowsynes out of our myndes. 1611Cotgr., Chasteté, chastitie, continencie, lustlesnesse. |