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speechless
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Speechless is a 1981 solo album by English guitarist , composer and improviser Fred Frith of the group Henry Cow . It was Frith's third solo album, and was originally released in the United States on LP record on The Residents ' Ralph record label . It ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English spæcleas "permanently mute;" see speech + -less . Meaning "mute by effect of astonishment" is from late 14c. Related: Speechlessly ; speechlessness .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Speechless \Speech"less\, a. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. --Addison. [1913 Webster] -- Speech"less*ly , adv. -- Speech"less*ness , n.
Usage examples of speechless.
It was so completely out of character for Omega Company that General Blitzkrieg was speechless for a moment.
The Bravo seemed to search for relief in the sympathizing eye of the pale and speechless Gelsomina.
Therewith he drank nigh a skinful of sweet dark Thramnian wine, in such sort that an hour before midnight, becoming speechless, he was holpen by Gro to his couch and slept a great deep sleep till morning.
And as our Lord, when He was able to speak, was announced by heralds who spoke, so before He could speak He was manifested by speechless elements.
On the other hand, the speechless infant certainly furnishes the proof, which is confirmed by some observations on microcephalous persons several years old or of adult age.
But the look of ecstatic joy about his sister struck Quintin speechless.
Ceremonial Inquisitor also was reft speechless, while the ranked candles burned, the white beeswax run liquid and refrozen in grotesque, clumped driblets.
He scowled to more properly punctuate it, while Silvan gaped at him, speechless.
He threw out his hands in suppliance, pleading with his clutching fingers, his staring eyes and his speechless but moving lips.
And long she held back in speechless horror, and all around her thronged visions of the pleasing cares of life.
To Yasmela, standing white and speechless at the door of her tent, the host seemed a pitiful handful in comparison to the thronging desert horde.
France have made it no secret that those of England, as a general thing, are to their perception an inexpressive and speechless race, perpendicular and unsociable, unaddicted to enriching any bareness of contact with verbal or other embroidery.
By aligning herself with a speechless, damaged brother, she made herself unadoptable, unplaceable.
Its circles, aye weeping and murmuring Mid her sad task of unregarded love, That to no smiles it might his speechless sadness move.
More clear the forms of speechless bliss float by, And heavenly gestures suit aethereal melody.