单词 | truceless |
释义 | trucelessadj. That is without truce; unceasing in hostility; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > [adjective] > unceasing untruceda1627 truceless1631 1631 T. Fuller Davids Sinne v. sig. A4 With trucelesse warre each other doth oppose. 1747 B. Sowden Verses Death Gardiner in P. Doddridge Some Remarkable Passages Life Col. J. Gardiner App. ii. 198 Dissolv'd in truceless grief she lay. 1852 Ld. Cockburn Life Jeffrey I. 202 His whole session was one keen and truceless conflict. 1886 E. King in Flaubert's Salammbô p. xv The truceless war between the Carthaginians and those barbarian mercenaries. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1631 |
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