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passionless, a.|ˈpæʃənlɪs|
[See -less.]
1. Void of passion; unimpassioned.
1612Shelton Quix. iv. vi. 346 An Honest, Noble, Warie, Retired, and Passionlesse woman. 1659O. Walker Oratory 98 The stricter examination of a now passion-less judgment. 1844Mrs. Browning Grief, Hopeless grief is passionless. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 574 An excellent digest of evidence, clear, passionless, and austerely just.
2. Without suffering, painless. rare.
1858Neale Hymn, ‘Brief life is here our portion’ iii, The crown Of full and everlasting And passionless renown.
Hence ˈpassionlessly adv.; ˈpassionlessness.
1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 185 The intense disinterestedness and passionlessness of his system. 1868Lightfoot Comm. Philipp. (1885) 273 Passionlessness (ἀπαθία) was the sovereign principle of [Zeno]. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career III. xviii. 294 How passionlessly pure the little maidenly sentiment was. 1899A. B. Bruce Moral Ord. World iv. 130 The apathetic sage, passionlessly yet passionately following reason, is the beau idéal of Stoicism. |