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aweless, awless, a.|ˈɔːlɪs|
Forms: α. 1 eᵹeléas, 3 eȝȝelæs, æielese. β. 4 aȝlez, 6 aweles, 6–7 awlesse, awelesse, 7–9 awless, aweless.
[f. awe n.1 + -less, continuing the sense of OE. ęᵹeléas: see awe n.1]
1. Without dread; fearless, undaunted, unappalled.
αc885K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xxxvi. 246 Eᵹeléaslicor [adv.] 1205Lay. 19410 Bruttes..weoren æielese.
βc1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2334 How þat doȝty dredles..stondes Armed ful aȝlez. 1595Shakes. John i. i. 266 Against whose fury..The awlesse Lion could not wage the fight. 1852D. Moir Cast. Time v. Wks. II. 392 While the keen knife the aweless Patriarch keeps Unsheathed. 1880Swinburne Stud. Song 38 The awless lord of kings.
2. Without awe; irreverent, presumptuous, rude.
αc1200Ormin 6190 Ȝiff þatt ȝho iss gætelæs & eȝȝelæs.
β1571Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc v. i. (1847) 153 Careles of countrey, and aweles of God. 1656Trapp Comm. Matt. xi. 29 Christians must not be yokeless, aweless, masterless. a1700Dryden (J.) With awless insolence. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 45 Where lawless force is awless master.
†3. That inspires no awe. Obs.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, ii. iv. 52 Insulting Tiranny beginnes to Iutt Vpon the innocent and awelesse Throne. 1614T. Adams Pract. Wks. (1861) I. 231 It is a lawless school where there is an awless monitor. |