a. [f. FLAME sb. + -LESS.] Devoid of flame; burning without flame.

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1606.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. I. Trophies, 54.

                        A fire so great
Could not live flameless long.

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1638.  G. Sandys, Par. Div. Poems, Lament. Jer., ii. 7.

        Jehova … forsakes
His flamelesse Altar.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev. (1857), I. I. VII. x. 219. The first sky-lambent blaze of Insurrection is got damped down; it burns now, if unextinguished yet flameless, as charred coals do, and not inextinguishable.

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1884.  Swinburne, Wordsworth and Byron, in 19th Cent., XV. May, 775. Is there anything in modern poetry at once so exalted and go composed, so ardent and serene, so full of steadfast light and the flameless fire of imaginative thought, as the hymn which assigns to the guardianship of Duty or everlasting law the fragrance of the flowers on earth and the splendour of the stars in heaven?

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