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tearless, a.|ˈtɪəlɪs|
[f. tear n.1 + -less.]
Void of tears; shedding no tears, not weeping.
1603North Plutarch (1612) 1123 This dayes iourney was called for them the tearelesse battell. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 879 Canst thou tear-lesse gaze..on that prodigious blaze, That hairy Comet? 1743Shenstone Elegies xix, Ye saw with tearless eye When your fleet perish'd on the Punic wave. 1868Lynch Rivulet cxxxii. v, A star, that..Shines..to point thy way On to the tearless country bright.
Hence ˈtearlessly adv., in a tearless manner, without weeping; ˈtearlessness, the quality or condition of being tearless.
1853C. Brontë Villette xxx, He watched tearlessly. 1894Westm. Gaz. 1 Mar. 3/1 What could be more..tearlessly pathetic? |