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Definition of Sourceless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sourceless
Literary usage of Sourceless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... indeed, proved triumphant ; but another such victory would have been her ruin,
and she had emerged from the conflict crippled and re- sourceless. ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1897)
"sourceless. Reason is empty but its use is inexhaustible. In its profundity,
verily, it resembleth the father of the ten thousand things. ..."
3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... but how entirely re- sourceless,— especially Mahlzahn!), "and had represented "
and repeated to them the above; beseeching that by their "remonstrances ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"For downright, re- sourceless cheerlessness commend us to an Eastern town under
a visitation of cold, where the chief business of architects and ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1857)
"And only thus, you will perhaps assure me, can the case really occur; for in the
open market such a re- sourceless borrower could gain no attention. ..."
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