rayless
Americanadjective
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dark; gloomy
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lacking rays
a rayless flower
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Origin of rayless
Example Sentences
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I pressed my lips to his once brilliant and now rayless eyes—I swept his hair from his brow, and kissed that too.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Will this awful, rayless night never cease—this thick blackness, this horrible silence?
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Far down into the dim, waveless, rayless depths, Mona has gone.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
I despised myself for having been pleased for a moment, like a child, with toys and rattles, and once more sunk down, a prey to the darkest and most rayless despondency.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
She rose at last and crawled slowly to her room, and abandoned herself to black, rayless hopelessness.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
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