Meaning of comfortless | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a person: deprived of comfort; uncomforted.
2. Of a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.

Equivalents

Examples

“I will nott leave⟳ you comfoꝛtleſſe: I will come⟳ vnto you.”

“[W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place⟳, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]”

“O my ſvveet ſir, nevves fitting to the night, / Blacke, fearefull, comfortleſſe, and horrible.”

“The Queene is comfortleſſe, and wee forgetfull / In our long abſence: pray doe not deliuer, / What heere y'haue heard to her.”

“The hope⟳ I dreamed of was a dream⟳, / Was but a dream⟳; and now I wake⟳ / Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old, / For a dream's sake.”

“Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.”

“The former ſaid it would be better to wait⟳ till the moon, which now appeared faintly, ſhould afford⟳ them light⟳ to ſee the marks which, in ſuch places, are generally made to direct⟳ travellers through the floods. To this the men, and particularly Heurthofen, reluctantly conſented; but as the wind and rain⟳ ſeemed to contend which ſhould render their ſtay the moſt comfortleſs, they ſoon became impatient, and again repreſented the poſſibility of paſſing in perfect ſecurity.”

“I did not dare return⟳ to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry⟳ on, although wetted by the rain⟳, which poured from a black and comfortless sky.”

“In comfortless, damp blankets we got through the night.”

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