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cloudless, a.|ˈklaʊdlɪs|
[f. cloud n. + -less.]
Without a cloud, unclouded, clear.
a1598Peele David & Bethsabe ad fin., The cloudless morning. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. (Grosart) I. 189 Rainlesse, their soil is wet, and Cloud-lesse, fat. 1671Milton Samson 1696 His cloudless thunder. 1791Cowper Odyss. xiv. 360 A cloudless gale Propitious blowing. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 53 Dew is..most copious on a cloudless night.
fig.1867M. E. Braddon R. Godwin I. i. 2 Whose life has been cloudless as one long summer's day.
Hence cloudlessly adv., cloudlessness.
1869Ruskin Q. of Air §157 His life..passes away cloudlessly. 1852D. Moir Poems, May-day iv, The same blue sky, Whose arching cloudlessness blest the eye. 1876L. Tollemache in Fortn. Rev. Mar. 352 Sometimes..the uniformity of cloudlessness became wearisome. |