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Lightless

//ˈlaɪtlɛs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking light; unilluminated; dark. not-comparable

    "From the besieged Ardea all in post, Borne by the trustless wings of false desire, Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the Roman host, And to Collatium bears the lightless fire Which, in pale embers hid, lurks to aspire And girdle with embracing flames the waist Of Collatine’s fair love, Lucrece the chaste."

Adjective
  1. 1
    without illumination wordnet
  2. 2
    giving no light wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English lightles, from Old English lēohtlēas, from Proto-West Germanic *leuhtalaus; equivalent to light (noun) + -less (“lacking, without”). Cognate with West Frisian ljochtleas, Dutch lichtloos, German lichtlos.

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