Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lacking sufficient evidence to constitute proof; not proved.

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

  • adjective Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved.

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  • adjective Without proof.

Etymologies

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proof +‎ -less

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Examples

  • "I shall take great pleasure in confounding my enemies should the matter be brought before a court, -- I'm sure if the colonel can stand that sort of thing I can, -- but as for defending myself or anybody else from utterly unjust and proofless suspicions, it's quite another thing."

    From the Ranks Charles King 1888

  • It is an amorphous accusation, sweeping and vague, spleen-born and proofless.

    Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864

  • English Milord, who has never ceased to besiege the court or the minister with alleged extenuations of our cousin's rebellion, and proofless assertions that I shared it in order to entangle my kinsman, and betrayed it in order to profit by his spoils.

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And methinks I should have done so, but for this accursed, intermeddling English Milord, who has never ceased to besiege the court or the minister with alleged extenuations of our cousin's rebellion, and proofless assertions that I shared it in order to entangle my kinsman, and betrayed it in order to profit by his spoils.

    My Novel — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Atheism, a primitive ideology, proofless evidenceless, which most are riding the hype.

    Top News Digg 2011

  • And also predictably, when one of these threads are posted, a couple of our usual posters use this as an opportunity to mock those of us who choose to worship a higher power that requires a proofless faith.

    Peach Pundit 2009

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