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lightless, a.|ˈlaɪtlɪs|
[OE. léohtléas, f. léoht light n. + -léas -less.]
Without light.
1. Receiving no light; unillumined, dark.
c1000ælfric Hom. (Th.) II. 504 He..sæde ðæt he wære ᵹelæd to leohtleasre stowe. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6819 For-þi þat helle es ay lightles, It es cald þe land of myrkenes. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1555 Such Deuils steale effects from lightlesse Hell. 1601W. Parry Trav. Sir A. Sherley (1863) 4 A man from his birth confined in a dungeon or lightlesse cave. 1819Crabbe T. of Hall iii. 275 A lightless closet, in a room Hired at small rate. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. iii. iii. §14 Not in her most ponderous and lightless masses will nature ever leave us without some evidence of transmitted sunshine. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 410 Into some nigh lightless prison cast. 1877Blackie Wise Men 102 An owl, a bat, Blindworm, or mole, or any lightless thing.
fig.1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. i. (Skeat) l. 20 Thynke on his disease, howe lightles he lyueth, sithe the beames brennende in loue of thin eien arn so bewet. 1790R. Merry Laurel Liberty (ed. 2) 13 All..who drew their profit from the lightless crowd.
2. Giving or shedding no light.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 4729 Þe son sal be turned in-til mirknes, And þe mone in-til blode, and be lyghtles. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 4 Lust-breathed Tarqvin..to Colatium beares the lightlesse fire. 1639Rutherford Lett. (1881) II. 415 O dim and dark and lightless Sun. 1809W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXVII. 456 Earth is but earth a dull and lightless body. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 130 There will be..the lightless fire, retaining in darkness the power to burn, but reft of its rays. 1869Tyndall Notes Lect. Light 43 The almost lightless flame of a Bunsen's burner.
Hence ˈlightlessness.
1865Cornh. Mag. Aug. 186 Something horrible there was too in the lightlessness of the red. 1892W. E. Henley Song of Sword, Lond. Voluntaries iii. 16 By a jealous lightlessness oppressed. |