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angelless

angelless adjective: without an angel.

Adjective

angelless (not comparable)

  1. (rare) 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 […]1978, César Vallejo, Clayton Eshleman, José Rubia Barcia, César Vallejo: the complete posthumous poetry
    • Our machines have shown us the uninhabited heavens while parting the angelless clouds.1980, Thomas L. Goodale, Peter A. Witt, Recreation and leisure: issues in an era of change

Origin of angelless

From angel + -less.

Questions about angelless

What does angelless mean?
Angelless means without an angel.
What part of speech is angelless?
Angelless is an adjective.

Words near angelless in the dictionary

  1. angelkind
  2. angell
  3. Angelle
  4. angelled
  5. Angelles
  6. angelless
  7. angellike
  8. angelling
  9. Angello
  10. Angellos
  11. angells

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