Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
lifeless .
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Examples
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BUT Shevchenko has his extremely weak and liveless shot saved by Dudek unbelievingly effortlessly!
whiteplum Diary Entry whiteplum 2005
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The fact that the party finally went to end, was not because of it was that the money would have gone out, but to the fact to attribute that most guests were liveless under the tables.
The Trouble Twisters Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966
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Then it is Drive on Coachman, and away fly the poor jades through the streets, striking fire out of the liveless stones, as if Pluto just at the same time were upon the flight with his Proserpina through the City.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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And part thou from the place a dead and liveless man,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Often cd’s sound flat, liveless, unless of course you want to buy the most expensive sound system available.
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Often cd’s sound flat, liveless, unless of course you want to buy the most expensive sound system available.
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1154: As good have grown there still a liveless Rib.
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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707: Outrage from liveless things; but Discord first
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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