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rescueless en · ADJ

Etymology

From rescue + -less.

Meanings

1. Without rescue or release.
   • Ominipotent Gus who had led her out of the floods and rescued the beasts! Rescueless himself, he tumbled to the boards. 2014, Thomas Keneally, Woman of the Inner Sea:
   • Nobody answeres the phone at Blood Island, so us Negresses are consigned to sit rescueless amid the smell of squandered blood, bowel movements, and disinfectant in a hospital my mother refused to give birth in and Eddie refused to die in. 2009, Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go, page 130:
   • Did I want to put myself in a rescueless place to see how I would respond? 2016, Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries: A Memoir:

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