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plightless en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English plightles, plyȝtles, equivalent to plight + -less.

Meanings

1. Devoid of plight
   • Finally arrives the prospect of storing up a “potentiality” of powers which can be sufficient, in the most plightless moment of the age of the complete lack of a sense of plight, to deliver up the globe, along with its atmosphere, to an explosive charge. 2013, Martin Heidegger, The Event, page 85:

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