bowelless

English

Etymology

bowel +‎ -less

Adjective

bowelless (comparative more bowelless, superlative most bowelless)

1. (obsolete) Without pity.
   • 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals‎^[1], 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, pages 49–50:

     If avarice be thy vice, yet make it not thy punishment. Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

   • 1792, “Louis XIV,” The European Magazine and London Review, Volume 22, July 1792, p. 8,^[2]

     On his coffin at St. Denis, by the side of which stands the urn that contains his bowels, some one wrote,

     C’y gyst sans entrailles,

     Comme il etoit à Versailles.

     What little change in men by death is made!

     Louis the Great here bowelless is laid;

     Such as he play’d the tyrant’s lofty part

     At proud Versailles, and liv’d without a heart.

See also

• bowels

References

• “bowelless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• bellowses, elbowless