| 释义 |
modeless, a.|ˈməʊdlɪs|
Also 6 moodelesse.
[f. mode n. + -less.]
†1. Unmeasured. Obs. (Frequent in Greene).
1580–3Greene Mamillia i. Wks. (Grosart) II. 17 Nor to shewe himselfe such a moodelesse Aminius, to say all were Criples, because he found one halting. 1587― Carde of Fancie ibid. IV. 11 Vsing suche mercilesse crueltie to his forraine enimies, & such modelesse [1593, A 4, moodlesse] rigour to his natiue citizens.
2. In mystical use: Having no ‘mode’ or specific determination.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. vi. viii. 325 note, The sons are utterly dead to self, in bare modeless love. 1865T. F. Knox tr. Life H. Suso 31 The modeless abyss of the divine essence.
Hence ˈmodelessness.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. x. i. 150 The contrast lies, with her, not between Finite and Infinite..between mode and modelessness,..but simply between God and Self. |