kindless

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Definition of kindless

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic, literary)Unnatural; lacking expected feeling or ability.
    “Poore Thamar, little did thy louely hands Foretell an action of ſuch violence, As to contend with Ammons luſty armes, Sinnewd with vigor of his kindleſſe loue, Faire Thamar now diſhonour hunts thy foot,”
    “Remorselesse, Treacherous, Letcherous, kindles villaine!”
    “Kneel not to me, ungrateful, kindless girl! I have been prostrate at your feet in vain.”
    “The Normanthorpe roses, famous throughout the north of England, were as yet barely budding in the kindless wind […]”
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adj

  1. (archaic, literary)Unnatural; lacking expected feeling or ability.
    “Poore Thamar, little did thy louely hands Foretell an action of ſuch violence, As to contend with Ammons luſty armes, Sinnewd with vigor of his kindleſſe loue, Faire Thamar now diſhonour hunts thy foot,”
    “Remorselesse, Treacherous, Letcherous, kindles villaine!”
    “Kneel not to me, ungrateful, kindless girl! I have been prostrate at your feet in vain.”
    “The Normanthorpe roses, famous throughout the north of England, were as yet barely budding in the kindless wind […]”
  2. (archaic)Heartless; destitute of kindness.
    “For a selfish and kindless nature no apologist dare appear : while in behalf of those who err from the excess of generous affections, there standeth ever a mediating angel between them and their worst offences.”
    “It is honorable to human nature, that his impressions of the common people in England, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, were of a pleasing character, as he was often placed in relations to them calculated to draw out their true nature, whether it were kind or kindless.”
  3. Having no specific kind, unspecified, general.
    “Types are called kindless if their interface has been specified, but we have not yet decided how to describe their behavior and we do not know their kind. We have currently implemented kindless objects as regular objects with a predefined behavior.”
    “In addition to performing queries on entities of a given kind, the datastore lets you perform a limited set of queries on entities of all kinds. Kindless queries cannot use filters or sort orders on properties.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From kind (“inherent quality, nature”, noun) + -less. Compare Middle English kindelæs (“incapable of generation, barren”). The sense "destitute of kindness" is likely influenced by kind (“benevolent; affectionate”, adjective).

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