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successless, a. Now rare; freq. in 17th and 18th c.|səkˈsɛslɪs|
[f. success n. + -less.]
Without, or having no, success; unsuccessful.
1584Peele Arraignm. Paris i. v, How mighty men made foul successless war Against the gods. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx. (1612) 149 Successlesse..and inraged. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 9 Divers great Princes,..with Successlesse labor, have attempted to make that rockie streight a navigable passage. 1641Remonstr. Commons in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1692) iii. I. 440 An expenceful and successless attempt upon Calez. 1665Dryden Ind. Emp. ii. i, The hopes of thy successless love resign. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. i. §18 That may succeed with one which may prove successless with another. 1713Addison Cato i. i, Passion unpity'd, and successless love Plant daggers in my heart. 1782F. Burney Cecilia ii. v, Belfield fired first, and missed; the Baronet was not so successless. 1820J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 138 By successless sallies wearied quite. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 134 He sympathizes, he concerns himself, He pens epistle, each successless play. 1891T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer I. i. 56 To make out the best showing possible for the English of a successless campaign.
Hence sucˈcesslessly adv., sucˈcesslessness.
1642O. Sedgwick Eng. Preserv. 40 Like him in the Gospel who began to build, but did not make an end: Whereupon results a vanity and successelesnesse to our workes. 1652Heylin Cosmogr. iv. 110 Successlessly again attempted. 1744Birch Life of Boyle 27 After the queen's and others doctors remedies had been successlessly tried. 1827Blackw. Mag. XXI. 790 We tried..on three days, successively and successlessly. 1906B. Capes Loaves & Fishes 204 He permitted his employers so to presume upon his reputation for successlessness. |