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  • adjective Without a noun or nouns.

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noun +‎ -less

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Examples

  • "Isabel," March complained, "I wish you wouldn't think of me in he, him, and his; I never personalize you in my thoughts: you remain always a vague unindividualized essence, not quite without form and void, but nounless and pronounless.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • "Isabel," March complained, "I wish you wouldn't think of me in he, him, and his; I never personalize you in my thoughts: you remain always a vague unindividualized essence, not quite without form and void, but nounless and pronounless.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • "Isabel," March complained, "I wish you wouldn't think of me in he, him, and his; I never personalize you in my thoughts: you remain always a vague unindividualized essence, not quite without form and void, but nounless and pronounless.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 3 William Dean Howells 1878

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