˜yÐÄvlog

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moveless

[ moov-lis ]

adjective

  1. lacking movement:

    the still night with its moveless branches.



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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³ŸŽÇ±¹±ðl±ð²õ²õ·±ô²â adverb
  • ³ŸŽÇ±¹±ðl±ð²õ²õ·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of moveless1

First recorded in 1570–80; move + -less
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Example Sentences

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“You said once that a moment in time was a contradiction since there could be no moveless thing. That time could not be constricted into a brevity that contradicts its own definition,” Long John tells Bobby.

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Andrew himself has recorded the poem St Paul’s, about how the troubled poet is soothed by a sight of the great cathedral in the snow, “high above this winding length of street, / This moveless and unpeopled avenue, / Pure, silent, solemn, beautiful”.

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The fire had burned down long since and there was no light but those strips and slants of dimness creeping across the circle, sketching out a face, a hand, a moveless back.

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Fixed and precise in his attitude, and moveless in his person, he poured forth his thoughts and views with a rapidity, yet distinctness, that startled one.

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My notion was nothing pathetic of the pale boys and lank girls about, for they seemed merely stirring or moveless parts of the mechanism.

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