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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

titleless en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English titleles, titlelees, equivalent to title + -less.

Meanings

  1. Having no title; nameless.
    • The first four drafts were swept down a manhole and a long, titleless book began to evolve. 2010, Larry McMurtry, Moving On, page 7:
  2. Without noble title; common.
    • Coriolanus / He would not answer to: forbad all names; / He was a kind of nothing, titleless, / Till he had forged himself a name o' the fire / Of burning Rome. 1623, Shakespeare, Coriolanus, V, I, 11:

Forms

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more titleless Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most titleless Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

titlelessness

Translations (4)

pl beztytułowy (having no title; nameless) · fi otsikoimaton (having no title; nameless) · fi aateliton (without noble title) · fi nimetön (having no title; nameless)