comfortless

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of a person

   Of a person: deprived of comfort; uncomforted.

   • I will nott leave you comfoꝛtleſſe: I will come vnto you.
   • [W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]
   • O my ſvveet ſir, nevves fitting to the night, / Blacke, fearefull, comfortleſſe, and horrible.
2. 2

   Of a thing

   Of a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.

   • Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.
   • I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although wetted by the rain, which poured from a black and comfortless sky.

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