different between stirless vs starless
stirless
English
Etymology
From stir +? -less.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?st??l?s/
Adjective
stirless (comparative more stirless, superlative most stirless)
- (archaic or poetic) Motionless, still.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.197:
- For there it lies so tranquil, so beloved, / All that it hath of Life with us is living; / So gentle, stirless, helpless, and unmoved, / And all unconscious of the joy 't is giving [...].
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.197:
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starless
English
Etymology
From Middle English sterreles, equivalent to star +? -less.
Adjective
starless (not comparable)
- without visible stars.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 422-6, [1]
- A globe far off / It seemed, now seems a boundless continent / Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of Night / Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky;
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 11, [2]
- The sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless.
- 1931, Sinclair Lewis, "Ring Around a Rosy" in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, Dell, 1962, p. 160,
- A searchlight wounded the starless dark.
- 1940, Robert Hayden, "Sonnet to E.," lines 1-2, in Heart-Shape in the Dust, cited in "Robert Hayden: The Apprenticeship: Heart-Shape in the Dust (1940)", African-American Poets, Volume 1: 1700s—1940s, edited by Harold Bloom, Infobase, 2009, p. 15,
- Beloved, there have been starless times when I / Have longed to join the alien hosts of death,
- 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, Dell, 1985, Book One, Chapter 1, p. 10,
- A hotel's enormous neon name challenged the starless sky.
- 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, New York: Vintage, 2004, p. 35,
- […] there is nothing to beat what the City can make of a nightsky. It can empty itself of surface, and more like the ocean than the ocean itself, go deep, starless.
- The starless night was very dark.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 422-6, [1]
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