Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Being without rule; lawless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of rule; lawless.

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  • adjective Without rules; unregulated.

Etymologies

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rule +‎ -less

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Examples

  • There had to be a balancing point somewhere, between going through the motions of working within the system and flying off into the ruleless void.

    Balancing in High Heels Eileen Rendahl 2004

  • There had to be a balancing point somewhere, between going through the motions of working within the system and flying off into the ruleless void.

    Balancing in High Heels Eileen Rendahl 2004

  • There had to be a balancing point somewhere, between going through the motions of working within the system and flying off into the ruleless void.

    Balancing in High Heels Eileen Rendahl 2004

  • There had to be a balancing point somewhere, between going through the motions of working within the system and flying off into the ruleless void.

    Balancing in High Heels Eileen Rendahl 2004

  • But the unruly [das Regellose] still lies in the ground as if it could break through once again, and nowhere does it appear as though order and form were original, but rather as if something initially ruleless had been brought to order.

    Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000

  • He came as the representative of law and rule; and there had been many helping themselves by a ruleless life, of late.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • As to the Book, I do say seriously that it is a wild, savage, ruleless, very bad Book; which even you will not be able to like; much less any other man.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

  • As to the Book, I do say seriously that it is a wild, savage, ruleless, very bad Book; which even you will not be able to like; much less any other man.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • King Louis like other men, lives in this world to make rule out of the ruleless; by his living energy, he shall force the absurd itself to become less absurd.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • This is a mechanism that Italy experimented between the two World Wars, in a situation of "international anarchy" and that is reappearing today, obviously in a different form, because the world unrest, caused by ruleless globalisation, generates in people the same feelings of insecurity; thus, the search of a scapegoat (the odd man) and the delegation to the absolute leader.

    cafebabel.com Mana Livardjani 2010

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