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kindless, a.|ˈkaɪndlɪs|
[f. kind n. + -less.]
†1. Without natural power, affection, feeling, etc.; unnatural. Obs. rare.
c1200Ormin 2310 Elysabæþ..Þatt ta wass swiþe winntredd wif, And kindelæs to tæmenn. 1599Peele David & Bethsabe Wks. (Rtldg.) 466/2 Amnon's lusty arms Sinew'd with vigour of his kindless love. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 609 Remorselesse, Treacherous, Letcherous, kindles villaine!
2. [As if f. kind a.] Devoid of kindness. rare.
1847Graham's Mag. Mar., Calculated to draw out their true nature, whether it were kind or kindless. 1881G. Macdonald Mary Marston xxxvii, It was a sad, gloomy, kindless November night. 1887Swinburne Locrine iii. ii. 75 One that had No thought less kindly—toward even thee that art Kindless—than best beseems a kinsman's part.
Hence ˈkindlessly adv., without affection.
1883R. W. Dixon Mano i. xi, 32, I was..by my parents kindlessly designed To marry one whom fate my equal made. |