given-nameless en · ADJ
Etymology
From given name + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, rare) Without a given name.
Addressing the first point, the characterization of Mark Spitz is quite different from that of the other given-nameless protagonist discussed in the previous chapter.
2024 March, Roger L. Barajas, Seems Pretty Real: An Examination of 9/11’s Impact on the American Post-Apocalyptic Novel, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, →ISBN:And, WHEREAS, there was a given-nameless man with the sur[-]tag “Childress” who was very muchly voted into the all-district 2-A team, so is there a “Childress” on this Stamford Bulldog team. Having a first name, however, he is called “Bob” instead of “Jiggs” even though “Bob” isn’t his real name.
1936 November 30, Frank Morrow, “Sports & Such”, in Wichita Falls Record News, home edition, volume XX, number 112, Wichita Falls, Tex.: Times Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1:The report on the funeral of Patrick Dignam was not there either, though it was undoubtedly based on the account in The Evening Telegraph for 13th July, 1904, of the funeral of Mr Mat Kane which, according to the report, was attended by, inter alia, Alfred H. Hunter, John S. Joyce, James A. Joyce, B.A., John Wyse Power, J. H. Menton, Alfred Bergin, Adam S. Findlater, Daniel O’Connell, Geo. Washington (no less), and a certain semi-anonymous body called ‘–Croakley’ who was as given-nameless as the pseudonymous ‘–M’Intosh’.
1989, Danis Rose, John O’Hanlon, “Commentary”, in The Lost Notebook: New Evidence on the Genesis of Ulysses, Edinburgh: Split Pea Press, →ISBN, page xxiv:
Coordinates
Christian-nameless · first-nameless · surnameless · middle-nameless · last-nameless