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Definition of Moveless
1. a. Motionless; fixed.
Definition of Moveless
1. Adjective. motionless ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moveless
1. incapable of movement [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moveless
Literary usage of Moveless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston: Comprising "Song-tide," "All by Philip Bourke Marston, Louise Chandler Moulton (1892)
"... moveless MEMORIES. BLOW, autumn wind of this tempestuous night! Roar through
this garden, and bear down these trees; Surely to-night thy voice is as the ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1836)
"IB the Mad-cell sit the Four, moveless :—from their blasted lips And now, dried
to skeleton-chips, Cometh language never more. ..."
3. Tecumseh, Or, The West Thirty Years Since: A Poem by George Hooker Colton (1842)
"He sat him by the door alone, And moveless watched the moving sun ; Nor of the
meaning glances knew, ..."
4. Idas and Marpessa: An Idyll of Constancy by Howard Vigne Sutherland (1912)
"As the trees awoke They trembled slightly, and the whisp'ring leaves Greeted each
other in the speech that is More delicate than music. moveless then ..."
5. The Collected Works of George Moore by George Moore (1920)
"room where I sit now, writing the same lines that I am now writing: I believe
that again, a few years later, my ashes will swing in the moveless and silent ..."
6. The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston: Comprising "Song-tide," "All by Philip Bourke Marston, Louise Chandler Moulton (1892)
"... moveless MEMORIES. BLOW, autumn wind of this tempestuous night! Roar through
this garden, and bear down these trees; Surely to-night thy voice is as the ..."
7. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1836)
"IB the Mad-cell sit the Four, moveless :—from their blasted lips And now, dried
to skeleton-chips, Cometh language never more. ..."
8. Tecumseh, Or, The West Thirty Years Since: A Poem by George Hooker Colton (1842)
"He sat him by the door alone, And moveless watched the moving sun ; Nor of the
meaning glances knew, ..."
9. Idas and Marpessa: An Idyll of Constancy by Howard Vigne Sutherland (1912)
"As the trees awoke They trembled slightly, and the whisp'ring leaves Greeted each
other in the speech that is More delicate than music. moveless then ..."
10. The Collected Works of George Moore by George Moore (1920)
"room where I sit now, writing the same lines that I am now writing: I believe
that again, a few years later, my ashes will swing in the moveless and silent ..."
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