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formless, a.|ˈfɔːmlɪs|
[f. form n. + -less.]
Devoid of, or wanting in, form; shapeless; having no determinate or regular form. Said both of material and immaterial things.
1591Spenser Tears Muses 502 Things she formed of a formelesse mas. 1595Shakes. John iii. i. 253. a 1631 Donne Poems, Elegie xv. Julia 25 Countlesse multitudes Of formlesse curses, projects unmade up. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 12 The rising world of waters..Won from the void and formless infinite. 1680G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 27 That unprescribed Formless way of Worship, which they now use. 1819Shelley Cenci iii. i, Like a ghost shrouded and folded up In its own formless horror. 1869Tyndall Chem. Rays in Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 244 This formless aggregate of infinitesimal particles. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 169 Brown birds..Twittered their sweet and formless tune.
Hence ˈformlessly adv.; ˈformlessness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Formlesness. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. App. C. (1858) 394 We leave space dimensionless..and therefore the representative of absolute weakness and formlessness. 1845Carlyle Cromwell (1873) I. i. 9 They had form, but they are changing into sheer formlessness. 1884Seeley in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 500 Goethe [was]..impatient of the formlessness which had begun to reign in literature. 1888Howells Annie Kilburn vi, His long coat hung formlessly from his shoulders. |