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angelless en · ADJ

Etymology

From angel + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Without an angel.
    • The loneliness and remote grandeur of the scene swept one into an angelless Paradise. 2007, Mark Channing, India Mosaic:
    • Our machines have shown us the uninhabited heavens while parting the angelless clouds. 1980, Thomas L. Goodale, Peter A. Witt, Recreation and leisure: issues in an era of change:
    • In the mountains too angels sang to the lonely shepherds. A lion roared on an angelless mountain. 1998, María del Carmen Boza, Scattering the ashes:
    • In the last half of the only poem I completed to any satisfaction while living in Japan, I envisioned myself as a kind of angelless Jacob wrestling with a figure from an alien alphabet, trying to take its meaning from him […] 1978, César Vallejo, Clayton Eshleman, José Rubia Barcia, César Vallejo: the complete posthumous poetry:

Translations (3)

pl bez anioła (Translations) · fi enkelitön (Translations) · de engellos (Translations)