panglessadj.
/ˈpaŋləs/, U.S. /ˈpæŋləs/ Chiefly poetic. Now rare.
That causes no pain or anguish. Also: untroubled; painless.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adjective] > free from pain or discomfort
eathOE
easyc1440
smartless1593
pain-free1629
pangless1727
unirritated1793
passionless1859
1727 W. Pattison Poet. Wks. I. 99 Pangless, he woos some pangless Dame of Fashion, And, in bad French, serenely lisps his Passion.
1743 A. Hill Fanciad v. 45 Happy Content saw Fame's close Curtain drawn: And Three stretch'd Nations shar'd one pangless Yawn.
1811 Ld. Byron To Thyrza iv Death for thee Prepared a light and pangless dart.
1849 Southern Q. Rev. Oct. 230 I held my breath lest I should break The pangless slumber of the dead.
1892 A. C. Swinburne Sisters v. i. 96 Arthur told me, surely, that this death Was pangless.
1922 Times 11 Mar. 8 The ‘Mivian Society’ (short for the ‘Midwivians’, vowed to bring socialism to pangless birth in a capitalist society).
Derivatives
ˈpanglessly adv. painlessly, without anguish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adverb] > without pain or discomfort
easilyc1300
easefully1611
painlessly1843
panglessly1874
1874 A. Austin Tower of Babel v. vi. 229 Nor shall I leave it panglessly.
1979 Noûs 13 401 It does not explain..why a person so motivated would decline to take a..conscience-destroying drug..so enabling him to execute panglessly such plans as he would like to.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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