| 释义 |
griefless, a.|ˈgriːflɪs|
[f. grief n. + -less.]
Free from grief.
1552Huloet, Griefeles or sorowles. 1566Gascoigne Iocasta ii. i, I graunte I can not grieflesse, well beholde My fathers pallace. 1843Tait's Mag. X. 311 Unmurmuring, griefless, watching. 1847S. Dobell Musing on a Victory, Grand And griefless as a rich man's funeral. 1882Swinburne Tristram of Lyonesse 6 The griefless ghost of grief.
Hence ˈgrieflessness, griefless condition.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxxii. 3 Hee betokeneth not greeflesnesse or blockishnesse. 1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 34 Greeflesnesse is thoughte too bee a signe of Desperatenesse. 1886Sidgwick Outl. Hist. Ethics ii. §16. 81 The grieflessness which the sage was conceived to maintain amid the worst tortures. |