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nameless(dictionary)

nameless (iou)



nameless adjective. ME.
[from NAME noun + -LESS.]
Not possessed of a distinguished or famous name; obscure, inglorious; left in obscurity. ME.
Milton Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell.
Not specified by name, left unnamed on purpose; having an undivulged name; impersonal, unknown. LME.
Ld Macaulay The two nameless executioners who had done their office..on the scaffold. Sounds The road manager of a headlining band that shall remain nameless. M. Angelou A lady can't drink with a nameless man.
Orig., (of a book, letter, etc.) of undeclared source or authorship, anonymous. Later, (of a tomb etc.) not having a name or identifying inscription. E16.
J. Wesley One of the hearers wrote me a nameless letter upon it. A. A. Procter Over a nameless grave.
a. Not having any legal right to a name, illegitimate. arch. L16.
Dryden And into Noble Families advance A Nameless Issue.
b. That has not been named; unnamed. M17.
S. Rogers A thousand nameless rills that shun the light.
That cannot be definitely named or described; inexpressible, indefinable. L16.
Clive James Nameless fears haunted the mind.
That one shrinks from naming; inexpressibly loathsome and horrific. E17.
H. P. Liddon Paganism allowed man to sink beneath a flood of nameless sensualities.
namelessly adverb L18.
namelessness noun E19.