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clanlessness en · NOUN

Etymology

From clanless + -ness. Piecewise doublet of plantlessness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being clanless.
    • To be disowned publicly is to be cut off from this, to be placed in a limbo of homelessness, clanlessness, to become nothing. 2004, Michael Hanne, Creativity in exile, page 23: