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hireless en · ADJ

Etymology

From hire + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without recompense, payment or reward.
    • "To cry the state of the political atmosphere,"—and so forth, I set off on a tour to the North, from Bristol to Sheffield, for the purpose of procuring customers, preaching by the way in most of the great towns, as an hireless volunteer, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, that not a rag of the woman of Babylon might be seen on me. 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter X, in Biographia Literaria: