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Causeless

Causeless \Cause"less\, a.

  1. Self-originating; uncreated.

  2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless.

    My fears are causeless and ungrounded.
    --Denham.

Causeless

Causeless \Cause"less\, adv. Without cause or reason.

Wiktionary
causeless

a. 1 Having no obvious cause; fortuitous or inexplicable 2 groundless or unreasonable

WordNet
causeless
  1. adj. having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless, causeless murder"; "a causeless war that never had an aim"; "an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change" [syn: reasonless]

  2. having no cause or apparent cause; "a causeless miracle"; "fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune"; "we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times" [syn: fortuitous, uncaused]

Usage examples of "causeless".

They preache her, they tell her night and day, That causeless she slays herself, alas!

That men should loven alway causeless, Who can a reason find, or wit, in that?

And help me God so at my moste need As causeless ye suffer all this dread!

Nevertheless, nothing is causeless, and even the fact that Englishmen have bad teeth can tell something about the realities of English life.

The repetition within so short a space of this expression of confidence in the impossibility of causeless effects would suggest that Mr.

Mr Palmer conjectured a reason for it, and the conjecture was confirmed when, after two or three more visits to Fenmarket, perfectly causeless, so far as business was concerned, Frank asked for the paternal sanction to his engagement with Madge.

This causeless melancholy that comes with rain, Or on such days as this when large wet snowflakes Drop heavily, with rain .

Sophia was very soon eased of her causeless fright by the entry of the noble peer, who was not only an intimate acquaintance of Mrs.

But I give my free and hearty consent, providing the settlements are drawn in such an irrevocable form as may secure my child from suffering by that state of dependence, and that sudden and causeless revocation of allowances, of which I have so much reason to complain.

And yet at such an hour as this, upstart Vague myriad longing, restless, unsubdued, And causeless tears from melancholy mood, Strange discontent with earth's and nature's best, Desires and yearnings that may find no rest.

In these giant shapes, two aspects pertaining to the inhuman were radiantly absent: the causeless and the purposeless.