heavenlessadj.
/ˈhɛvnləs/, U.S. /ˈhɛv(ə)nləs/ Now chiefly poetic.
Without the comfort, joy, or hope of heaven; having no place in heaven.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] > having no portion in
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1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxviii. 378 Wee can promise no more, in this heavenlesse race and exercise of Christianity, than the Prophet doeth in the Psalme.
1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 22 Write this man..hopelesse, heavenlesse.
1670 W. Annand Pater Noster v. iii. 211 They are contemned, because heavenless.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 272 As do idolators their heavenless gods, We deify the things which we adore.
1871 T. G. Hake Madeline viii. 61 One heavenless depth where souls may laugh or pray: From God to man a silence all the way.
1916 A. Coester tr. J. Zorrilla de San Martín in Literary Hist. Spanish Amer. v. 183 In the closing words of the poem: ‘The Indian is silent forever, like his race, like the desert, a tongueless mouth, a heavenless eternity.’
1958 E. E. Cummings Compl. Poems (1994) 755 Unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home of knowledgeable shadows.
1996 Poetics Today 17 567 A fatherless, heavenless Jesus who had recognized as part of himself..both God and the devil.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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