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noteless, a.|ˈnəʊtlɪs|
[f. note n.2 + -less.]
1. Devoid of note; unmarked, undistinguished, unnoticed.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca ii. i, Whose virtues..Must not be lost in mists and fogs of people, Noteless, and out of name. 1630Dekker 2nd Pt. Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 154 Let her walke Saint-like, notelesse, and vnknowne. 1786Burns A Bard's Epitaph ii, Is there a bard of rustic song, Who, noteless, steals the crouds among. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. iv, In hurry of the night, 'Scaped noteless, and without remark, Two strangers. 1878Stanford Symb. Christ ix. 250 Some noteless action may be the germ of a power that shall spread through all the earth.
2. Unmusical, unharmonious; voiceless.
1721D'Urfey Two Queens of Brentford i. ii, The Bag⁓pipe with its Squeak and Drone, Or Parish-Clerk, with noteless Tone, Are Owls to us Sweet Singers. 1820Byron Juan iv. lxxxvii, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow. 1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 405 A little brown noteless bird starts from among our feet.
Hence ˈnotelessly adv.; ˈnotelessness.
1830R. Chambers Life Jas. I, II. iii. 209 Clouds..decline notelessly..beneath the horizon. Ibid. x. 258 His life was spent in its usual tranquillity and notelessness. 1854Chamb. Jrnl. I. 305, I at least do not pass notelessly. |