idlesse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of idlesse
1590–1600; idle + -esse, as in finesse, etc.
Example Sentences
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Our butterfly hours were then past: we grew into work-a-day bees—if only we have stored some honey in your hives to pay us for the lost idlesse of our dreamy summers!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Another word which Spenser made, and which is still sometimes used, was fool-happy; but other words, like idlesse, dreariment, drowsihead, are hardly seen outside his poetry.
From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)
In the summer of 1867 I was in Germany, and during a brief journey of idlesse and enjoyment came to the lovely little watering-place of Liebenstein, on the southern slope of the Thuringian Forest.
From Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home by Taylor, Bayard
But to us utter idlesse is perfect bliss.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
The piazza with its sights of beauty was lit up by that warm morning sunlight under which the autumn dew still lingers, and which invites to an idlesse undulled by fatigue.
From Romola by Eliot, George
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