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Definition of Terrorless
1. a. Free from terror.
Definition of Terrorless
1. Adjective. Not causing terror; unfrightening. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Terrorless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Terrorless
Literary usage of Terrorless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Humane Review (1901)
"Of course nothing less than the completely terrorless and painless extinction of
life will be the ultimate demand of humane feeling in England ; but while ..."
2. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"How bold the flight of passion's wandering wing, How swift the step of reason's
firmer tread, How calm and sweet the victories of life, so How terrorless ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... Clamorous war-cries, terrorless as charmless. A fight where all, save spite,
is sham indeed, Purposeless as poor Patch with his pea-bladder. ..."
4. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1908)
"... Come, lead me with thy terrorless control Down to our Mother's bosom, there
to die By abdication of my separate soul: So shall this single, ..."
5. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1908)
"... sympathies of mankind: 1 As in the concluding stanzas of Our Ladies of Death: "
But if this cannot be, no less I cry, Come, lead me with thy terrorless ..."
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