Log in or Sign up
  1. bowelless love

Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Without tenderness or pity; unfeeling.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete Without pity.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Without pity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. ruthless in competition

Etymologies

  1. bowel +‎ -less (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto themselves, and merciless unto their own bowels.”

    Letter to a Friend

  • “Thief and pirate should he prove henceforth; no more nor less; as bowelless, as remorseless, as all those others who had deserved those names.”

    Captain Blood

  • “Emperor Charles V. and, so, half-brother to the bowelless King Philip”

    The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series

  • “He breathed fierce and honest anathema on the heads of the bowelless fiends who had abandoned the babe to its doom.”

    The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol

  • “I did avoid a critical personal examination into my character by that bowelless committee, but I referred to all the people of high standing I could think of in the community who would be least likely to know anything about me.”

    The Innocents Abroad

  • “I did avoid a critical personal examination into my character, by that bowelless committee, but I referred to all the people of high standing I could think of in the community who would be least likely to know any thing about me.”

    The innocents abroad, or, The new Pilgrim's progress

  • “Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.”

    Christian Morals

  • “But this is not thy doing: the bowelless fiend sends thee, poor simple girl, to me with this bait.”

    The Cloister and the Hearth

  • “The young man followed, and in the next moment found himself in the bowelless body of the tree itself; into which, on the side of the encampment, both light and sound were admitted by a small aperture formed by the natural decay of the wood.”

    Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete)

  • “But I declare that I have seen nothing of this excepting the said dead knight, bowelless, emaciated, wishing, in spite of his confessor, still to go to this wench; and then he has been recognised as the lord de Bueil, who was a crusader, and who was, according to certain persons of the town, under the spell of a demon whom he had met in the Asiatic country of Damascus or elsewhere.”

    Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine

Show 10 more examples...

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘bowelless’.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for bowelless.

‘bowelless’ has been looked up 778 times, added to 1 list, and has a Scrabble score of 14.