a. [f. TRUCE sb. + -LESS.] That is without truce; unceasing in hostility; also fig.
1631. Fuller, David’s Sin, v. With truceless war each other doth oppose.
1747. B. Sowden, Death Gardiner, in Doddridge, Life Col. Gardiner, App. ii. 198. Dissolv’d in truceless grief she lay.
1852. Ld. Cockburn, Jeffrey, I. 202. His whole session was one keen and truceless conflict.
1886. E. King, in Flaubert’s Salammbô, p. xv. The truceless war between the Carthaginians and those barbarian mercenaries.
