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groundless, a.|ˈgraʊndlɪs|
Forms: 1 grundléas, 4 groundlyas, 4–5 groundeles, 5 growndles, 6– groundless, (7 -lesse).
[OE. grundléas, f. grund ground n. + -léas -less. Cf. MDu. and Du. grondeloos, MHG. gruntlôs (G. grundlos), MSw. and Sw. grundlös.]
†1. Bottomless, unfathomable. lit. and fig. Obs.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. vii. §4 Sio grundlease swelᵹend hæfð swiðe mæneᵹu westu holu on to gadrianne. c1315Shoreham Poems 154 Godes domes beth A groundlyas pet. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 310 All the gotez of þy guferes, & groundelez powlez. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xv. 83 O hov deply I owe to submitte myself under þi depe groundeles iuggementes, lorde. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. i. Vocation 393 Shallowest Foords to ground-less gulfs doe change.
2. Destitute of foundation, authority, or support; having no real cause or reason; unfounded.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 331 Groundleese imaginations, and vaine confidences. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 77 A groundless fiction that cannot be proved. 1719Young Revenge iii. i, 'Twas your mistake, and groundless are your fears. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. xi. (1869) I. 199 This notion..seems to be altogether groundless. 1838Thirlwall Greece IV. xxxiii. 319 This report proved as groundless as the message of Ariaeus. 1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Africa II. 168, I came to the conclusion that their murmurs were not entirely groundless. |