a. [f. TREMOR + -LESS.] Without tremor or excitement; untrembling, unshaken. Also fig.
1838. Times, 2 Nov., 5/4.
| The strength of the tremorless tread | |
| Of our bravest our love can resign, | |
| But tears as of blood shall be shed | |
| For the dastard returning of thine. |
1853. C. Prichard, in Monthly Notices R. Astron. Soc., XIII. 14 Jan., 63. I could at any time procure a perfectly bright and comparatively tremorless surface of mercury.
1859. A. Sutliffe, Poems, 60.
| For who shall dare, with bold hand tremorless, | |
| The lyre of Zion, wherein stately plumes | |
| Surge to the sea-swell of the eager rhyme, | |
| And hope to take again his scathless hand? |
1869. Contemp. Rev., XI. 43. A suicide, whose words, written just before he committed the act, prove his lucid and tremorless sanity.
1882. Fraser’s Mag., XXV. 415. An albatross blown along by its outstretched tremorless wings.
1898. R. Primrose, in Brit. Weekly, 6 Oct., 411/1. Brave men … with tremorless souls the worst can face.
Hence Tremorlessly adv., without tremor; without a ripple.
1890. Clark Russell, Ocean Trag., III. xxxii. 187. The sea … tremorlessly circling the island.
