Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without truce: as, a truceless war.
- Granting or holding no truce; unforbearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a truce; unforbearing.
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- adjective Without a
truce .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The truceless war between HD DVD and Blu Ray has a new element to think about.
il blog: HD DVD vs. Blu Ray Decio Biavati 2007
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This has been an unending struggle against a truceless enemy who will not quit, be it in the area of practical activities as well as in ideological activities.
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When after three days and three nights of truceless fighting the
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various
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It means a truceless war against low ideals and tolerated evils in the world about us.
Religious Reality 1922
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It means truceless war against the spirit of selfishness, against everything that tends to drag us down, against the law of sin in our own members.
Religious Reality 1922
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It was the age of flounces, and this expansive tendency culminated, in the mid-'fifties, in the reign of the crinoline, against which Punch waged for many years a truceless but, as he himself admitted, a wholly ineffectual warfare.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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"The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew."
The Lord of the Sea 1906
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Such is also the truceless warfare of the waves on the surface of the sea, whilst profound peace reigns in the depths below.
Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Henri Bergson 1900
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When they are asked the reason for this furious and truceless war, they allege psalms and a kind of music varying from the custom which has obtained among you, and similar pretexts of which they ought to be ashamed.
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It is this that rouses against us their implacable and truceless war.
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