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comfortless, a.|ˈkʌmfətlɪs|
[f. comfort n. + -less.]
Without comfort.
†1. Without relief, aid, or resource; unrelieved, helpless, desolate. Obs. (exc. as occas. implied in sense 3 or 4.)
a1400Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) ii. 27, I will not leeve you comfortles [John xiv. 18; so in Coverdale 1535, Bps. Bible 1569, and 1611]. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 207 All the Barons of Fraunce had forsaken her..and so she was left all comfortlesse. 1568Bible (Bishops') Ps. xii. 5 For the comfortlesse troubles sake of the needy. 1639Bury Wills (1850) 172 All my houshold fledd from me and left me..comfortles. 1725Pope Odyss. xv. 380 Sole, and all comfortless, he wastes away.
†2. Without courage or strength, spiritless. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 25 Þe kyng erle was al comfortlees, and nyh deed for fere. c1400Rom. Rose 4412 Comfortles the deth I drede.
3. Destitute or devoid of mental comfort, consolation, or solace; of persons (now rare), unconsoled, inconsolable; of actions, states, etc., attended with no comfort.
c1460Sir R. Ros Dame Sanz Mercy 461 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 67 To comforte hem that lyve al comfortlees. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 80 Melancholly, Kinsman to grim and comfortlesse dispaire. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 760 Thou stoodst..comfortless, as when a Father mourns His children. 1794Wordsw. Guilt & Sorrow iii, Perplexed and comfortless he gazed around. 1803Southey Lett. (1856) I. 240 We had, indeed, a gloomy and comfortless parting. 1878Seeley Stein II. 394 My account of this comfortless time.
†b. actively. Giving no comfort. Obs. rare.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. iii. i. 251 That kisse is comfortlesse, As frozen water to a starued snake. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. (1682) 468 Hunger, Vermine, and Tortures, being my Comfortless Companions.
4. Devoid of physical comfort; dreary, cheerless. (The most usual current sense.)
1576Fleming Panoplie Ep. 297 Inhabitable woodes and comfortlesse caves. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. v, A deplorable and comfortlesse Winter. 1754H. Walpole Let. to Chute 14 May, The country is cold and comfortless. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 672 Cold and comfortless habitations. |