- a variation of aweless.
awless
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To describe the fop of her day she invented or hit upon the significant epithet, "awless."
From Time Magazine Archive
III Out of the shadow, starlike still, She rose up radiant in her right, And spake, and put to fear and flight The lawless rule of awless will That pleads no right save might.
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Truth, flawless and awless, Do falsehood what it can, Makes royal the loyal And simple heart of man.
From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Life, Eternal, passionate, awless, Insatiable, mutable, dear, Makes all men's law for us lawless: We strive not: how should we fear Strife?
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Has the boy Transgressed again in awless heat of speech And kindled wrath in thee against him—thee, Who stood'st between my wrath and him?
From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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