terror
noun
intense, sharp, overmastering fear.
terrorless
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a word derived from
terror.
Example Sentences
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Love had crept in, noiseless, terrorless at first, till each felt their life bound up in the other, and at the same time knew that they must part.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
For, in his hands, it is no longer the familiar and terrorless thing it once had been, a thing about whose behavior one can be certain.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
One dwells in lonely places, Newly with grass o'ergrown; some solemn graces, Some human memories and tearful lore, Render him terrorless: his name's "No More."
From Selections from Poe by J. Montgomery Gambrill
Its subject was taken from the old cycle of Arthurian legends, which were brightened with the terrorless magic of Ariosto and Tasso.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
