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dayless, a.|ˈdeɪlɪs|
[f. day n. + -less.]
†1. Without redress, resource, or result. Obs.[? Having lost his day, or the day.] c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 92 Þes vanytes wasten pore mennus goodis & suffren hem goo dailes whanne þei han nedis to pursue. Ibid. 129 Pore men schullen stonde with oute & goo dailes but ȝif þei geten knockis. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 159 His enemy was bigiled and passed dayles [in vanum]. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 247 b, He came ageyne daylesse, or nothynge done [re infecta rediit].
2. Devoid of the light of day; dark.
1816Byron Prisoner of Chillon Sonnet, To fetters and the damp vault's dayless gloom. 1892Ld. Lytton King Poppy Prol. 356 Gleaming thro' a dayless world.
3. Not divided into days.
1839Bailey Festus xix. (1848) 218 Deep in all dayless time, degreeless space. |