单词 | viceless |
释义 | vicelessadj. Free from vice. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [adjective] > free from vice viceless1578 1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 5 To that effect, that he may viceles be, Of all vices, and sic thing as gais wrang. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 27 Galba..rather vicelesse than greatly vertuous. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ii. sig. Kk1v Errours about Religion,..maintain'd by Men that are resolute, and viceless. 1671–4 Countess of Warwick Autobiogr. (Percy Soc.) 164 The young men were not viceless. a1678 Countess of Warwick Autobiogr. (1848) 35 Mr. Henry St. John, was very good-natured and viceless. 1847 J. Halliday Rustic Bard 321 Viceless virtue, undecaying, Shed her lustre on our name. 1890 Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 575/1 Those who are themselves sinless and viceless. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1578 |
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