| 释义 |
houseless, a.|ˈhaʊslɪs|
[f. house n.1 + -less.]
1. Not having or dwelling in a house; having no shelter or place of refuge; homeless.
c143015 Tokens in Adam Davy etc. (1878) 93 Herberewe þe housles. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 30 Your House-lesse heads, and vnfed sides. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 4 Where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door. 1838H. Blunt 7 Ch. Asia 77 We all feel for the houseless and destitute. 1886American XIII. 21 The homeless and houseless poor.
2. Destitute of houses and the shelter they yield.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxx. v, In a tent, in a howselesse harbour. 1798Wordsw. Tintern Ab. 20 Vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods. 1829Lytton Disowned ii. 8 Our home is the houseless sward.
†b. Inhospitable. Obs. rare—1.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 351 Men of þis lond beeþ..housles, and grete fiȝteres [= gens inhospita, bellicosa].
Hence ˈhouselessness, houseless condition.
1819Blackw. Mag. V. 229 The night—the storms—the houselessness. 1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xiii, A cry of loneliness and houselessness. |