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Definition of Hateless
1. not hating [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hateless
Literary usage of Hateless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italian Characters in the Epoch of Unification (1890)
"As Car- •ducci, the chief of Italian living poets, has observed in his fine
critical essay on Mameli, never was there a bard so hateless, so little ..."
2. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"... good friend, what profit can you see In hating such a hateless thing as me ?
There is no sport in hate when all the rage Is on one side: in vain would ..."
3. The Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger (1904)
"Lamb refers to his " Lines to a Reviewer," beginning— " Alas ! good friend, what
profit can you see In hating such a hateless thing as me ? ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"And yet, so far as Mars could bide a mean, You hateless sought the safeguard of
them all: Whereto the better cause or badder chance Did draw, ..."
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