a. [f. FANCY sb. + -LESS.] Of persons, compositions, etc.: Destitute of fancy.
1753. Armstrong, Taste, 185.
| Zounds! shall a pert, or bluff important wight, | |
| Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. |
1789. Burney, Hist. Mus., IV. 546. These [compositions] … are fanciless, and no more fit for one instrument than another.
1800–24. Campbell, Poems, View St. Leonard’s, 53.
| Who can be | |
| So fanciless as to feel no gratitude. |
1863. Kinglake, Crimea, II. 162. Common, sensible, fanciless men, men wise with the cynic wisdom of London clubs, were now by force turned into venturers, intent as Argonauts of old in gazing upon the shores of a strange land, to which they were committing their lives.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., I. 144.
| So, in this book lay absolutely truth, | |
| Fanciless fact. |
