thewlessness

noun

Etymology

From thewless + -ness.

  1. inherited from þēawlēas
  2. inherited from thewless
  3. suffixed as thewlessness — “thewless + ness

Definitions

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being thewless

    • A consequence of this which only worsens the intellectuals' thewlessness is that their antagonists are preaching a salvationary religion, and as Max Weber has said, such religions attract social strata in decline.
    • The cloying diminution of signification and significance—indeed the thewlessness of all aspects of meaning, whether semantic, syntactic or pragmatic—that befalls the conscious mind as a result of its tendance upon a symbol [...]
    • That thewlessness is a pointed recollection of the last lines of "History": "Let us go down," Canaan's invaders tell themselves as they pause before descending to pillage and take possession, [...]

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