a. [f. CLOUD sb. + -LESS.] Without a cloud, unclouded, clear.
a. 1598. Peele, David & Bethsabe, ad fin. The cloudless morning.
1605. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. III. iii. (Grosart), I. 189. Rainlesse, their soil is wet, and Cloud-lesse, fat.
1671. Milton, Samson, 1696. His cloudless thunder.
1791. Cowper, Odyss., XIV. 360. A cloudless gale Propitious blowing.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 53. Dew is … most copious on a cloudless night.
fig. 1867. Miss Braddon, Rupert Godwin, I. i. 2. Whose life has been cloudless as one long summer’s day.
Hence Cloudlessly adv., Cloudlessness.
1869. Ruskin, Q. of Air, § 157. His life … passes away cloudlessly.
1852. D. Moir, Poems, May-day, iv. The same blue sky, Whose arching cloudlessness blest the eye.
1876. L. Tollemache, in Fortn. Rev., March, 352. Sometimes … the uniformity of cloudlessness became wearisome.
