Meanings
- not comparablerareWithout an angel.
The loneliness and remote grandeur of the scene swept one into an angelless Paradise.
2007, Mark Channing, India Mosaic3 more examples
In the last half of the only poem I completed to any satisfaction while living in Japan, I envisioned myself as a kind of angelless Jacob wrestling with a figure from an alien alphabet, trying to take its meaning from him […]
1978, César Vallejo, Clayton Eshleman, José Rubia Barcia, César Vallejo: the complete posthumous poetryOur machines have shown us the uninhabited heavens while parting the angelless clouds.
1980, Thomas L. Goodale, Peter A. Witt, Recreation and leisure: issues in an era of changeIn the mountains too angels sang to the lonely shepherds. A lion roared on an angelless mountain.
1998, María del Carmen Boza, Scattering the ashes
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Finnish enkelitön
- enkelitönTranslations
German engellos
- engellosTranslations
Polish bez anioła
- bez aniołaTranslations
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angelless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angelless
“angelless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angelless. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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