英和和英

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstləs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈzɪstləs/
• ハイフネーション: re‧sist‧less

形容詞

resistless (comparative more resistless, superlative most resistless)

1. That cannot be resisted; irresistible. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 5, canto 1:

     His name was Talus, made of yron mould, / Immoveable, resistlesse, without end […]

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 415–420, page 83:

     Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.

   • 1794, William Blake, The Book of Urizen, 365-7, [1]

     Delving earth in his resistless way, / Howling, the Child with fierce flames / Issu'd from Enitharmon.

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   • 1855, Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass, page 45:

     I seize the descending man .... I raise him with resistless will. / O despairer, here is my neck, / By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.

   • 1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “[Untitled poem]”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., OCLC 156194182:

     Is all our Life, then, but a dream / Seen faintly in the golden gleam / Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?