Liveless

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Obsolete form of lifeless..

Example Sentences

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

[…] 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?

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.

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