questionless

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After school entrance, questions recede gradually until by the ninth, tenth, or eleventh year children have reached what is called the questionless age.

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  1. Unquestioning. With the same clear mind and questionless faith. L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 498.
  2. Without question; beyond doubt; doubtless; certainly. [An elliptical use of the adjective, standing for the phrase “it is questionless that.”] I have a mind presages me such thrift That I should questionless be fortunate! Shak., M. of V., i. l. 176. She's abus'd, questionless. Middleton and Rowley, Changeling, iv. 2. What it [Episcopacy] was in the Apostles time, that questionlesse it must be still. Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii.

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  • And, questionless, these same conditions were the source of an age-long melee--such as this week is, happily, impossible in any of our parishes--wherein contended "courtesy, and humanity, friendliness, hardihood, love and friendship, and murder, hate, and virtue, and sin." —  Chivalry
  • And as for Angels, he sayd they were, questionless, ministering Spiritts, not onlie sent forth to minister unto the Heirs of Salvation, but sometimes Instruments of God's Wrath, to execute Judgments upon ungodly Men, and convince them of the ill Deeds which they have ungodly committed; as during the Pestilence in David's Time, when the King saw the Destroying Angel standing between Heaven and Earth, having a drawn Sword in his Hand, stretched over Jerusalem. —  Mary Powell ; Deborah's Diary
  • After school entrance, questions recede gradually until by the ninth, tenth, or eleventh year children have reached what is called the questionless age. —  The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book
  • The Queen was, questionless, the most interesting female in the circle. —  A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three
  • The officer did not vouchsafe even to open the leaves--treating it, questionless, with a most sovereign contempt; but crying, "bah!--vous pouvez bien passer," he replaced the things which he had very slightly discomposed, and added that he wished all contraband articles to consist of similar materials. —  A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three
 

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