liveless

comparative more liveless · superlative most liveless

1. obsoleteObsolete form of lifeless.

   To lay / The liveleſs body in a bed of clay, / Laid in his ſable cheſt.

   1657, Josua Poole, The English Parnassus: or, A Helpe to English Poesie. […], London: […] Tho. Johnson, […], page 270

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   […] likewiſe, within it tells you and your friends, God breathed himſelf into Adams liveleſs bodie, but without in words of Scripture he tells us, God was in that liveleſs body before he breathed into his noſtrills that breath of life, becauſe he is not excluded out, nor included in, to any thing, for he fills both Heaven and Earth by his eſſence, as well as by his efficiencie, as at large is proved againſt you?

   1660, Francis Duke, An Answer to Some of the Principal Quakers, Which Deceive the People, but More Particularly to a Book of John Chandler’s Called or Known by This Title, A Narrative Plainly Shewing, That the Priests of England Are as Truly Antichrist […], London: […] T. N. for Miles Michel the younger, […], page 14

   See, how their wandring ſouls in a continual efflux ſally forth at their encontring eyes; and conſuming themſelves in greedy looks, leave their bodies faint and liveleſs, many times falling into ſwoons and Syncopes.

   1668, [Walter Charleton], The Ephesian and Cimmerian Matrons, Two Notable Examples of the Power of Love & Wit, Savoy: […] Henry Herringman […], page 67