Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from dross.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Free from dross.
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- adjective Free from dross.
Etymologies
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dross + -less
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Examples
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Queen Nature was on the throne in the fulness of power, and Dorothy, in perfect attune with her great sovereign, was fulfilling her destiny in accordance with the laws to which her drossless being was entirely amenable.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884
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Whence the bright ores of drossless wisdom brought,
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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