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resistless|rɪˈzɪstlɪs|
[f. resist v. + -less.]
1. That cannot be resisted; irresistible.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. ii, So..Must Tamburlaine by their resistless powers..Conclude a league of honour. 1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 390 It must be of a strong and resistlesse vertue. 1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 112 It can subdue the most raging, and resistlesse lusts. 1693S. Harvey in Dryden Juvenal ix. (1697) 237 Try to Imprison the resistless Wind. 1748Johnson Van. Hum. Wishes 137 Resistless burns the fever of renown. 1813Parr Let. Wks. 1828 VIII. 496 So peerless, so resistless, and upon this occasion so guileless an advocate..as Mr. Burke. 1874Geo. Eliot Coll. Breakf. P. 114 That resistless weight Obstinate, irremovable by thought.
2. Powerless to resist; unresisting.
1591Spenser Muiopot. 436 He seized greedelie On the resistles pray. 1612W. Parkes Curtaine-Dr. (1876) 44 Vpon whose breasts are charactred and insculpt the ensignes of weaknesse and resistlesse impotency. 1818Keats Endym. iii. 266 O misery of hell! resistless, tame, Am I to be burnt up? 1892Cornh. Mag. May 559 She was quite resistless, quite gentle. |