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Definition of Tensionless
1. Adjective. Free from tension.
Definition of Tensionless
1. Adjective. Having no tension ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tensionless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tensionless
Literary usage of Tensionless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1817)
"Oh yes, I do foresee when she shall hear with what courtesey her most pre-
tensionless advocate has been treated, how the same wind that wafts her the ..."
2. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1847)
"strength, now and then using it in very grotesque fashions, yet docile, pre-
tensionless, thirsting for all sorts of knowledge ; but above all, possessed of ..."
3. The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical by Lionel Thomas Berguer (1823)
"... Noble Authors/ is a valuable and curious adjunct to literary biography; but
it comprises n\any names, that would be pre- tensionless without their rank. ..."
4. Poems by Frances Ridley Havergal (1881)
"... mute in the tensionless string ; Longed for a calm to let the circles die away
That tremble over the heart, breaking the heavenly ray, And to leave its ..."
5. Poems by Frances Ridley Havergal (1883)
"... Waking the music that slept, mute in the tensionless string; Longed for a calm
to let the circles die away That tremble over the ..."
6. The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical by Lionel Thomas Berguer (1823)
"... that would be pre- tensionless without their rank, Titled ancestors went for
every thing with WALPOLE, and a long lineage secured almost his worship. ..."
7. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1889)
"... Broken or tensionless the sweet harp strings ; Within the holy place no clear
hell rings, In token that therein the high priest pleads ' Desolate sounds ..."
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