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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

attemptless en · ADJ

Etymology

From attempt + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not making or not having made an attempt.
    • Why then Caſanes ſhall we wiſh for ought The world affoords in greateſt noueltie, And reſt attemptleſſe faint and deſtitute? c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v: