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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Resistless \Re*sist"less\, a.
1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. [Obs. or
R.] --Spenser.
2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.
Masters' commands come with a power resistless To
such as owe them absolute subjection. --Milton.
-- {Re*sist"less*ly}, adv -- {Re*sist"less*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
resistless
adj 1: impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or
resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an
irresistible force meets an immovable object?" [syn: {irresistible}]
[ant: {resistible}]
2: offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other
colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in
allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly
harried"- Theodore Roosevelt [syn: {supine}, {unresisting}]
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