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wantless, a. rare.|ˈwɒntlɪs|
[f. want n.2 + -less.]
Having no want or lack. Hence ˈwantlessness.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. iii. xiv. (1589) 56 The want-les Counties Essex, Kent, Surrie, and wealthie Glayde Of Hertfordshire. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 393 All Winter-long, Thou [the Lambourn stream] never shows't a drop, Nor send'st a doit of need-less Subsidie, To Cramm the Kennet's Want-lesse Treasurie, Before her Store be spent, and springs be staid. 1890C. Monkhouse Corn & Poppies 81 No faith in giving To wantless dead the crumbs that feed the living. 1896Contemp. Rev. Apr. 498 A German thinker has denounced the ‘accursed wantlessness of the masses as the great inner obstacle of social progress. |