| 释义 |
labourless, laborless, a.|ˈleɪbəlɪs|
[f. labour n. + -less.]
Without, devoid of, or unaccompanied by labour; requiring no labour; doing no labour.
1608Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iii. Schism 694 There (labour-less) mounts the victorious Palm. 1675Hobbes Odyss. (1677) 225, I doubt thou ne'r wilt labour any more, But rather feed thy carcass labourless. 1854Fraser's Mag. L. 70 This labourless Hercules. 1880Tennyson Voy. Maeldune viii, Bread enough for his need till the labourless day dipt under the West. 1888Rhys Hibbert Lect. 643 A fabled age of..labourless plenty and social equality.
†b. Not requiring fatiguing toil. Obs.
1630Brerewood Sabaoth 48 In forbidding of worke,..they intend not your precise abstinence from any light and labourlesse worke. 1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 109 Such light and labourlesse workes were no transgressions. |