Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from pang or pain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a pang; painless.
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- adjective Without a
pang ;painless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He, however, died in the arms of his afflicted wife, and was surrounded by his family, a privilege purchased at the expense of severe pain, but still one to the husband and father -- even though he had been snatched from his pangless death-sleep to possess it, poor fellow!
Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) Samuel Strickland 1835
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Surely, if any spot in the world be sacred, it is that in which grief ceases, and for which, if the voice within our hearts mocks us not with an everlasting lie, we spring upon the untiring wings of a pangless and seraphic life ” those whom we love around us ” our nature, universal intelligence, our atmosphere, eternal love.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer Sotheran, Charles, 1847-1902 1876
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Surely, if any spot in the world be sacred, it is that in which grief ceases, and for which, if the voice within our hearts mocks us not with an everlasting lie, we spring upon the untiring wings of a pangless and seraphic life -- those whom we love around us -- our nature, universal intelligence, our atmosphere, eternal love. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer Charles Sotheran 1874
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