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Definition of Soulless
1. Adjective. Lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling.
Definition of Soulless
1. a. Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.
Definition of Soulless
1. Adjective. insensitive or unfeeling; as if without a soul ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soulless
1. soul [adj] - See also: soul
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soulless
Literary usage of Soulless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"NICKAR THE soulless. BY SEBASTIAN EVANS. [Of Nickar, alias Nicker, Neckar,
Neck—etymological parent of " old Nick," and subject of the following poem—more ..."
2. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry; Famous Characters by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"Huge, hideous, soulless, full of animal passions, it pursues Frankenstein and
every one he loves to the bitter end. It murders his closest friend, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... whose enthusiasm annihilated external beauty in the effort after spiritual
loveliness, all comeliness was bodily; hence the splendid soulless statues of ..."
4. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"Once upon a time there was a young fellow called Body-without-Soul, or, for short,
soulless, and he was a cannibal who would eat nothing but young girls. ..."
5. The Barrister: Being Anecdotes of the Late Tom Nolan of the New York Bar by Charles Frederick Stansbury (1902)
"The Harvest-Moon and soulless Corporations, HERE is one of Mr. Richard Neville's
reminiscences of the Barrister : It was by long odds one of the warmest ..."