释义 |
truceless, a.|ˈtruːslɪs| [f. truce n. + -less.] That is without truce; unceasing in hostility; also fig.
1631Fuller David's Sin v, With truceless war each other doth oppose. 1747B. Sowden Death Gardiner in Doddridge Life Col. Gardiner App. ii. 198 Dissolv'd in truceless grief she lay. 1852Ld. Cockburn Jeffrey I. 202 His whole session was one keen and truceless conflict. 1886E. King in Flaubert's Salammbô p. xv, The truceless war between the Carthaginians and those barbarian mercenaries. |