Word Meanings - WIELDLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy. "Wieldless might." Spenser.

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• MIGHTILY
  1. In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully. Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i. 29. 2. To a great degree; very much. Practical jokes amused
• WIELDSOME
  Admitting of being easily wielded or managed. Golding.
• MIGHT
  imp. of May. Etym:
• MIGHTY
  1. Possessing might; having great power or authority. Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Job ix. 4. 2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. "His mighty works." Matt. xi. 20. 3. Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality
• WIELD
  gewyldan, from wealdan; akin to OS. waldan, OFries. walda, G. walten, OHG. waltan, Icel. valda, Sw. vålla to occasion, to cause, Dan. volde, Goth. waldan to govern, rule, L. valere to be strong. Cf. 1. To govern; to rule; to keep, or
• WIELDLESS
  Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy. "Wieldless might." Spenser.
• UNWIELDY
  Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. "A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old." Clarendon. -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n.
• WIELDY
  Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed to unwieldy. Johnson.
• WIELDER
  One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller. A wielder of the great arm of the war. Milton.
• WIELDABLE
  Capable of being wielded.
• MIGHTINESS
  1. The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak. 2. Highness; excellency; -- with a possessive pronoun, a title of dignity; as, their high mightinesses.
• WIELDANCE
  The act or power of wielding. "Our weak wieldance." Bp. Hall.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• MIGHTFUL
  Mighty. Shak.
• WIELDING
  Power; authority; rule. To have them in your might and in your wielding. Chaucer.
• MIGHTLESS
  Without; weak.
• ALMIGHTINESS
  Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.
• ALMIGHTILY
  With almighty power.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• SMIGHT
  To smite. Spenser.
• ALMIGHTFUL; ALMIGHTIFUL
  All-powerful; almighty. Udall.
• ALMIGHTY
  1. Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible. I am the Almighty God. Gen. xvii. 1. 2. Great; extreme; terrible. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey. The Almighty, the omnipotent