comfortless

adj

1. Of a person: deprived of comfort; uncomforted.

   “I will nott leave you comfoꝛtleſſe: I will come vnto you.”

   “[W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]”

   “O my ſvveet ſir, nevves fitting to the night, / Blacke, fearefull, comfortleſſe, and horrible.”

   “The Queene is comfortleſſe, and wee forgetfull / In our long abſence: pray doe not deliuer, / What heere y'haue heard to her.”

   “The hope I dreamed of was a dream, / Was but a dream; and now I wake / Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old, / For a dream's sake.”

2. Of a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.

   “Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.”

   “The former ſaid it would be better to wait till the moon, which now appeared faintly, ſhould afford them light to ſee the marks which, in ſuch places, are generally made to direct travellers through the floods. To this the men, and particularly Heurthofen, reluctantly conſented; but as the wind and rain ſeemed to contend which ſhould render their ſtay the moſt comfortleſs, they ſoon became impatient, and again repreſented the poſſibility of paſſing in perfect ſecurity.”

   “I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although wetted by the rain, which poured from a black and comfortless sky.”

   “In comfortless, damp blankets we got through the night.”