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English
Etymology
bowel + -less
Adjective
bowelless (comparative more bowelless, superlative most bowelless)
- (obsolete) Without pity.
1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, pages 49–50:If avarice be thy vice, yet make it not thy punishment. Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.
- 1792, “Louis XIV,” The European Magazine and London Review, Volume 22, July 1792, p. 8,
- On his coffin at St. Denis, by the side of which stands the urn that contains his bowels, some one wrote,
- C’y gyst sans entrailles,
- Comme il etoit à Versailles.
- What little change in men by death is made!
- Louis the Great here bowelless is laid;
- Such as he play’d the tyrant’s lofty part
- At proud Versailles, and liv’d without a heart.
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