单词 | resistless |
释义 | resistlessadj. Now somewhat archaic. 1. That cannot be resisted; irresistible. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > [adjective] > inevitable uneschewablec1374 unscapablea1382 ineschewable1412 inevitablec1430 intreatable1509 unevitable1539 forcible1574 inextricable1576 unavoidable1577 resistless1590 unshunning1593 unavoided1597 inexorable1600 unpreventablea1601 fatal1605 irrenitible1605 unvoided1612 unescapable1614 shunlessa1616 unshunnablea1616 ineluctable1623 unpreventible1632 undefensablea1642 undeclinable1652 indeclinable1658 ineludible1662 avoidlessa1668 inavoidable1670 infrustrable1677 unhinderable1678 wardless1693 unfrustrable1714 unparryable1770 inescapable1792 inexcludible1817 unproscribable1817 unprecludible1825 undeliverable1843 inevasible1846 scapeless1850 deviceless1851 escapeless1855 unevadable1857 ineliminable1875 inavertible1885 unavertible1897 voidless1908 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E8 So..Must Tamburlaine by their resistlesse powers..Conclude a league of honor. 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 110 From Piety and cleere-Eyde Providence Authoritie derives resistlesse force. 1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 112 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity It can subdue the most raging, and resistlesse lusts. 1693 S. Harvey in J. Dryden tr. Juvenal Satires ix. 184 Try to Imprison the resistless Wind. 1749 S. Johnson Vanity Human Wishes 13 Resistless burns the Fever of Renown. 1799 Monthly Rev. 28 525 An attraction of cohesion..which is..severing, with resistless interstitial force, the comparatively loose and feeble organization of every contiguous state. 1813 S. Parr Let. in Wks. (1828) VIII. 496 So peerless, so resistless, and upon this occasion so guileless an advocate..as Mr. Burke. 1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 163 That resistless weight Obstinate, irremovable by thought. a1918 R. S. Bourne Hist. Literary Radical (1956) 92 A young Modernist priest..gave me a sense of that vast, subterranean, resistless, democratizing and liberalizing movement in the Church. 1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South ii. i. 132 The Calvinized Jehovah,..the resistless orderer of all things from the sparrow's flight to the stately pacing of the stars. 1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 38 I wasn't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me..was solely down to my resistless charms. 2. That offers no resistance; powerless to resist; unresisting. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > [adjective] unresisting1586 resistless1591 unaffrontive1720 unrepulsing1748 unstruggling1822 unrepugnant1823 unresistant1832 1591 E. Spenser Muiopotmos in Complaints sig. X2 He seized greedelie On the resistles pray. a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iii. sig. G The wastfull sea, Whose billowes beating the resistlesse bankes, Shall ouerflow it with their refluence. 1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-drawer 36 Vpon whose breasts are charactred & insculpt the ensignes of weaknesse, & resistlesse impotency. 1645 J. Marsh Marsh his Mickle Monument 32 Ah silly Lambs, resistlesse in your harms, Wasted and spoyl'd, yet shew no discontent. 1747 Lady M. W. Montagu St. James's Coffee-house in Town Eclogues 75 Her night-cloaths tumbled with resistless grace, And her bright hair play'd careless round her face. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 118 O misery of hell! resistless, tame, Am I to be burnt up? 1892 Cornhill Mag. May 559 She was quite resistless, quite gentle. 1907 E. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt xiii. 58 Why should we poor helpless little children, all soft and resistless, be squeezed and jammed into the rusty iron bands of parental points of view? 1937 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 12 Jan. 4/1 None but a diabolical schemer could have pounded the very life out of a resistless victim of 10 tender years. 2006 C. Frazier Thirteen Moons ii. ii. 79 Walking into the pen of a fat and muddy pink pig..and burying an axe between its resistless ears. Derivatives reˈsistlessness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > [noun] > inevitability unavoidableness1599 unescapableness1610 inevitablenessa1631 inavoidableness1640 indeclinableness1648 inevitability1649 fatation1652 uninterruptibleness1654 necessitude1677 fatality1699 resistlessness1794 unavoidability1858 unpreventableness1884 ineluctability1943 inescapability1945 1794 J. Ebers Vollständiges Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache II. 562/2 Resistlessness, die Unwiderstehlichkeit. 1818 G. Watterston Lett. from Washington iii. 51 The singularity and resistlessness of his eloquence. 1870 Echo 5 Dec. The self-confidence and resistlessness of the men in the road. 1990 Boundary2 17 105 Isabel offers Pierre the chance to introspect, the potential to examine the resistlessness of the narrative of history in America. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1590 |
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