Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack or absence of peace: the opposite of
peacefulness .
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- noun
Discord ;simmering conflict ; astate oftenpreluding war .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When a meditator becomes enlightened, he explained, "all suffering will cease, all agony will go, and all peacelessness and misery of life will simply disappear."
Steve Posner: Why Have The Beatles Returned to Maharishi? 2009
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Perhaps it is a reaction to the helter-skelter life we all lead; the peacelessness of modernity constantly striving to deny us nature's calm and forcing us to believe that we are apart from nature, not a part of it.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Perhaps it is a reaction to the helter-skelter life we all lead; the peacelessness of modernity constantly striving to deny us nature's calm and forcing us to believe that we are apart from nature, not a part of it.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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