Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without gesture; free from gestures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Free from gestures.
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- adjective Without the use of
gesture .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then he explained in quiet, unflowery, gestureless language.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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And Larry realized that the emotion behind it was a thousand times what showed in the thin voice of the bent, gestureless figure.
Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902
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No one else was wagging and waving in that way: a gestureless mute telegraphy seemed to pass between the other boxes.
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899
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Cathedral, and receive an impressive sermon from lips that have been silent and hands that have been gestureless for three hundred years.
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872
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Cathedral, and receive an impressive sermon from lips that have been silent and hands that have been gestureless for three hundred years.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 02 Mark Twain 1872
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At the pitying exclamation he gives a last interrogative glance over the plain; then, with a word to his horse, and a touch of the spur, he moves out into the open, and on; the other animal following, as before, its rider maintaining the same distance and preserving the self-same attitude, silent and gestureless as ever!
Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850
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