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moveless, a.|ˈmuːvlɪs|
[f. move v. + -less.]
Having no movement or motion, not moving, motionless; immovable, fixed.
1578T. Proctor Gorg. Gallery H ij b, Whose mooueles loue and trust, doth reason far surmount. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. 1. Ark 169, I conceiue aright Th' Almighty⁓most to be most infinite:..That moueless, all he moues. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. i. (1848) 167 My Body as yet lay moveless in the Bed. 1718Pope Iliad xv. 744 The Grecian Phalanx moveless as a Tow'r, On all sides batter'd, yet resists his Pow'r. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xviii. (1870) 353 The intermediate balls which remain moveless, but communicate the impulse. 1860S. Brooks Gordian Knot xiii. 95 The policeman inspected all parties with a moveless countenance. 1885Howells Silas Lapham II. 93 The reins lay loose in his moveless hand.
Hence ˈmovelessly adv., ˈmovelessness.
1667Hook in Phil. Trans. II. 540 It was not the subsiding or movelesness of the Lungs, that was the immediate cause of Death. 1813Shelley Q. Mab vii. 262 Yet peacefully and movelessly it [an oak] braves The midnight conflict of the wintry storm. 1865Ruskin Sesame 121 A king's majesty or ‘state’, then, and the right of his kingdom to be called a state, depends on the movelessness of both. 1866Alex. Smith A. Hagart's Househ. I. 7 He would be touched by the silence and movelessness of the mighty landscape. |