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raylessness

  • a word derived from rayless.
    rayless
    adjective
    lacking rays or raylike parts.

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I knew that I had now fully recovered the use of my visual faculties—and yet it was dark—all dark—the intense and utter raylessness of the Night that endureth for evermore.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

What it meant taking on was Franklin's raylessness, Franklin's obscurity, Franklin's dun-colour—could a wife escape the infection?

From Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick