Definition of Bootlessness

1. Noun. (obsolete) The quality of being unavailing or unprofitable. ¹

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Definition of Bootlessness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootlessness

bootlaces
bootlast
bootlasts
bootle
bootleg
bootlegged
bootlegger
bootlegger reverse
bootlegger reverses
bootleggers
bootlegging
bootlegs
bootles
bootless
bootlessly
bootlessness (current term)
bootlessnesses
bootlick
bootlicked
bootlicker
bootlickers
bootlicking
bootlicks
bootlike
bootload
bootloader
bootloaders
bootloads
bootmaker
bootmakers

Literary usage of Bootlessness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"Stranger still, that she should have stuck yet closer to it in 1827, when ehe had had still ampler time to learn the bootlessness of the possession ! ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... which beguile the weariness of the journey, and make us sometimes forget its bootlessness. None of these flowers, however, are indigenous to so barren a ..."

3. A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico by Edith O'Shaughnessy (1916)
"... the hill could have seen them he would have recognized all the might and majesty of our land and the bootlessness of any struggle. ..."

4. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"... opticians (notwithstanding the total bootlessness of such a superabundance) of course take pleasure in making such "superior" lenses, and the natural ..."

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