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单词 gall-less
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gall-lessadj.

/ˈɡɔːllɪs/
Etymology: < gall n.1 + -less suffix.
Possessing no gall. Hence, free from bitterness or malice; incapable of being roused to anger.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > meekness or mildness > [adjective]
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mansuetea1425
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unwrathful1542
rageless1578
lamb-like?1592
mildya1603
milky1602
pigeon-livered1604
placid1614
spleenless?1615
passive1616
unprovokable1646
milken1648
uncaptious1661
stomachless1727
unindignant1789
pianoa1817
ireless1829
unquarrelsome1830
quiet-goinga1835
uncholeric1834
unoffendable1839
baby-milda1845
quiet-tempered1846
turtlish1855
pathic1857
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xix. 1158 Cameles ben bestes of longe lif for þay ben galleles.
1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man xvii. §19. 382 A Dove, a meek and gall-lesse creature.
1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 17 Ah! mild and gaulless Dove.
1726 R. Savage Sir T. Overbury iii. i Tho' the soft Dove brood gall-less o'er your Breast, Yet let the wary Serpent arm your Mind.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert iv, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 91 When I consider from what prison he was brought, and in what guise he inhabited it, I cannot believe in this gall-less disposition.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. vii. 124 And the poor student, usually so mild and gall-less, stamped his foot in impotent rage.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Sept. 5/1 The idyllic, guileless and gall-less life.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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