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Definition of Compassionless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compassionless
| compast compatability compatable compaternities compaternity compatibilisation compatibilised compatibiliser compatibilism compatibilist | compatibilists compatibilities |
Literary usage of Compassionless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"Strange sagas read he in their sea-blue Cold as the sea, grandly compassionless ;
Like life, they made him eager and then eyes mocked. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"... a compassionless, emotionless, ethical machine. Beneficence in itself is
godlike; but beneficence alone is but a godlike statue—an effigies embodying a ..."
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