objectless

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But he must on wearily and lamely, for ever through this wood--objectless, except for life and liberty.

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  1. Having no object; purposeless; aimless. Strangers would wonder what I am doing, lingering here at the sign-post, evidently objectless and lost. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxviii.

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  • But he must on wearily and lamely, for ever through this wood--objectless, except for life and liberty. —  Heart A Social Novel
  • But they differ in this from Normal Science--they are alike objectless, purposeless, puerile, frivolous. —  The Haunters ; The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural
  • The sexual impulse of childhood is therefore objectless or autoerotic Still during infancy the erogenous zone of the genitals begins to make itself noticeable, either by the fact that like any other erogenous zone it furnishes gratification through a suitable sensible stimulus, or because in some incomprehensible way the gratification from other sources causes at the same time the sexual excitement which has a special connection with the genital zone. —  Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
  • The monotonous rumbling of the ambulance wheels sounded distinctly upon his ear, and he could listen, with a kind of objectless curiosity, to the casual conversation of the driver, as he exchanged words here and there with others, who were returning upon the same dismal errand from the scene of carnage. —  Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession
  • And whilst it is evident that, with the establishment of industrial freedom, both undertaker and landowner become, not merely superfluous, but altogether objectless--_ipso facto cease to exist--with respect to the capitalist, the possessor of savings, it can even be asserted that society is dependent upon him in an infinitely higher degree when free than when enslaved, because it can and must employ much more capital in the former case than in the latter. —  Freeland A Social Anticipation
 

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