dedolent

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Fear-fraught, but ever met with spirit dedolent.

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  1. Feeling no sorrow or compunction. When once the criterion or perceptive faculty has lost its tenderness and sensibility, and the mind becomes reprobate, then darkness and light, good and evil, … are all one. Then … men are dedolent and past feeling. Hallywell, Saving of Souls, p. 114. No men [are] so accursed with indelible infamie and dedolent impenitency as Authors of Heresie. N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 22.

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  • Fear-fraught, but ever met with spirit dedolent. —  Ideala
  • Half an hour after the Tenor parted from Angelica, she was sleeping soundly, not because she was dedolent but because she was exhausted; and when that is the case sleep is the blessed privilege of youth and strength, let what will have preceded it. —  The Heavenly Twins
 

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  1. from Latin dedolen(t-)s, ppr. of dedolere′. cease to grieve, from de- priv. + dolere, grieve: see dole.
 

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