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  • adverb In a lightless way; without light.

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Examples

  • His Escort was rolling silently and lightlessly down the drive towards the road.

    In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996

  • Or, what has that formless spiritual creation deserved of thee -- that it should flow lightlessly like the abyss -- since it is so unlike thee and would not exist at all if it had not been turned by the Word which made it that same Word, and, illumined by that Word, had been "made light"

    Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

  • a continual sensation that even though it rested in his finger tips it was being pulled lightlessly away from him to fall endlessly into an inconvertible currency.

    Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

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