a. [f. VIGOUR sb. + -LESS.] Destitute of or lacking vigor.

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1758.  Phil. Trans., L. 756. Indeed one can scarce call it living, merely to breathe, and trail about a vigorless body.

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1833.  Longf., Outre-Mer, Prose Wks. 1886, I. 160.

        Our hearts have not so craven grown,
  So bloodless all our veins,
So vigorless our brawny arms,
  As to submit to chains.

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1888.  Outlook (N.Y.), April, 483. The marked contrast between the vigorless conscience of Continental Europe, and the vigorous conscience of the Puritans.

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1902.  Westm. Gaz., 20 Jan., 4/2. In those vigourless days of Whig ascendency.

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