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hearthless en · ADJ

Etymology

From hearth + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a hearth.
    • For this reason, a hearthless pusher-type furnace has been developed. 2005, Axel von Starck, Alfred Mühlbauer, Carl Kramer, Handbook of thermoprocessing technologies, page 407:
    • There was a desolate village in a wood, Whose bloom-inwoven leaves now scattering fed The hungry storm; it was a place of blood, A heap of hearthless walls;—the flames were dead Within those dwellings now,—the life had fled From all those corpses now,— […] 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 279:
  2. (broadly, figuratively, not-comparable) Without a home.
    • It was not a singer of the fireside, but a hearthless wanderer, who put in all hearts the Anglo-Saxon's simple "Home, Sweet Home." 1906, Henry Watterson, The compromises of life, page 343:

Deriveds

hearthlessness

Translations (2)

el ανέστιος (without a hearth) · grc ἀνέστιος (without a hearth)