a. [f. SWERVE v. + -LESS.] Unswerving; also, that may not be swerved from.
1819. Vermont Republican, 12 April, 4/1.
| For friendship never could its sense express, | |
| Nor warmer love its pang of parting tell: | |
| But oft the hand, extended to caress | |
| The lip of swerveless faith, where loiters long ‘Farewell.’ |
1863. P. S. Worsley, Poems & Transl., 5. He … spake, appealing to that swerveless oath.
1869. Mrs. Whitney, Hitherto, xxxiv. His … spirit looked forth at me from pure, swerveless eyes.
1882. Ella W. Wilcox, Poems, ‘Let me lean hard,’ iii. That swerveless force Which speeds the solar systems on their course.
