单词 | gall-less |
释义 | gall-lessadj. Possessing no gall. Hence, free from bitterness or malice; incapable of being roused to anger. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > meekness or mildness > [adjective] stillc825 tamec888 mildeOE lithea1000 daftc1000 meekc1325 lambishc1374 meeklyc1375 benign1377 temperatec1380 quieta1382 gall-lessa1398 mansuetea1425 meeta1425 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). < adj.a1398 |
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