resistless

English

Etymology

From resist +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstləs/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈzɪstləs/
Hyphenation: re‧sist‧less

Adjective

resistless (comparative more resistless, superlative most resistless)

That cannot be resisted; irresistible. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  His name was Talus, made of yron mould, / Immoveable, resistlesse, without end […]
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 415–420, page 83:
  Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.
- 1794, William Blake, The Book of Urizen, 365-7,
  Delving earth in his resistless way, / Howling, the Child with fierce flames / Issu'd from Enitharmon.
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744:
  My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, and almost frantic, impulse, urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
- 1855, Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass, page 45:
  I seize the descending man .... I raise him with resistless will. / O despairer, here is my neck, / By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
- 1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “[Untitled poem]”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., OCLC 156194182:
  Is all our Life, then, but a dream / Seen faintly in the golden gleam / Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
Putting up no resistance; unresisting. [from 16th c.]
- 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
  All this time they were doing something—I could not see what—to the corpse; sometimes they were too busy rifling the dead body, I believe, to talk; again they let it fall with a heavy, resistless thud, and took to quarrelling.

Anagrams

sisterless

单词	resistless
释义	resistless English Etymology From resist +‎ -less. Pronunciation (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstləs/ (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈzɪstləs/ Hyphenation: re‧sist‧less Adjective resistless (comparative more resistless, superlative most resistless) That cannot be resisted; irresistible. [from 16th c.] 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938: His name was Talus, made of yron mould, / Immoveable, resistlesse, without end […] 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 415–420, page 83: Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law. 1794, William Blake, The Book of Urizen, 365-7, Delving earth in his resistless way, / Howling, the Child with fierce flames / Issu'd from Enitharmon. 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify \|volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744: My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, and almost frantic, impulse, urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit. 1855, Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass, page 45: I seize the descending man .... I raise him with resistless will. / O despairer, here is my neck, / By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me. 1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “[Untitled poem]”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., OCLC 156194182: Is all our Life, then, but a dream / Seen faintly in the golden gleam / Athwart Time's dark resistless stream? Putting up no resistance; unresisting. [from 16th c.] 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman All this time they were doing something—I could not see what—to the corpse; sometimes they were too busy rifling the dead body, I believe, to talk; again they let it fall with a heavy, resistless thud, and took to quarrelling. Anagrams sisterless
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