viewless

adj — 2 senses

viewless

adj

Etymology From view + -less.

1

Without a view.

  • a viewless hotel room
2

Poetic invisible; unseen

  • To be imprison'd in the viewless windsc. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
  • Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed, and viewless mixed with common air.1725, Homer, “Book IV”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
Derived terms
viewlessly

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