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sorrowless, a.|ˈsɒrəʊlɪs|
Also 1 sorh-, sorᵹleas, 5 sorweles, 6 sorowlesse.
[f. sorrow n. + -less. Cf. MDu. sorghelos (Du. zorgeloos), MHG. sorgelôs (G. sorglos, sorgenlos), ON. sorg(a)lauss (Sw. sorglös, Da. sorgløs).]
Free from sorrow.
Beowulf 1672 Þæt þu on Heorote most sorhleas swefan mid þinra secga ᵹedryht. a900Cynewulf Crist 346 Þær we sorᵹlease siþþan motan wuniᵹan in wuldre. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxviii. 14 We lærað hyne, & ᵹedoð eow sorhlease. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. 3695 Ȝit can þei feyne and salte teris fynde,..And sorweles mornen and compleyne. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. v. H viij, Taking theyr pleasures in banketting..and playinge so sorowlesse. 1658J. Hewitt Serm., Repentance & Conv. 23 If their repentance be sorrowless, 'twill prove but a sorry one. 1881J. Russell Haigs xiii. 390 The mourner and the mourned are equally silent and sorrowless. |