a. In 5 werreles. [f. WAR sb.1 + -LESS.] Free or exempt from war; not engaging in war.
1436. Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 203. And thus shulde everi lande one with another … life togedre werreles in unité.
1857. Chamb. Jrnl., VIII. 256. The pale, pure crescent in the warless heavens.
1866. Neale, Sequences & Hymns, 6. So him they lead to warless rest.
1886. Tennyson, Locksley Hall After, 165. Earth at last a warless world, a single race, a single tongue. Ibid., 170. Universal ocean softly washing all her warless Isles. Ibid., 172. Who can fancy warless men?
Hence Warlessly adv., in a warless manner.
1887. Grace King, in Harper’s Mag., July, 267/1. Little flags would mark battles all over the map of their country—the country Mademoiselle Couper despised as so hopelessly, warlessly insignificant.
1931. Border Cities Star, 15 Jan., Sect. 2, 1/8. Even should A.D. 2000 be reached warlessly (and what a wonder that would be).
