angelless

adj

Etymology

From angel + -less.

  1. derived from angele
  2. derived from ἄγγελος — “messenger
  3. inherited from *angil
  4. derived from angelus
  5. inherited from anġel
  6. inherited from aungel
  7. suffixed as angelless — “angel + less

Definitions

  1. Without an angel.

    • In the last half of the only poem I completed to any satisfaction while living in Japan, I envisioned myself as a kind of angelless Jacob wrestling with a figure from an alien alphabet, trying to take its meaning from him […]
    • Our machines have shown us the uninhabited heavens while parting the angelless clouds.
    • In the mountains too angels sang to the lonely shepherds. A lion roared on an angelless mountain.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for angelless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA