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wasteless, a.|ˈweɪstlɪs|
[f. waste n. + -less.]
Without diminution, unwasting.
1589Greene Tullies Love Wks. (Grosart) VII. 196 Thou doest wring water out of the flint, fier forth of y⊇ dry sandes,..so that by wastlesse perswasions for thy friende, I am forst to say [etc.]. 1620May Heir iv. (1633) G 1 b, Those powers above..That from their wastlesse treasures heape rewards. 1679in Roxb. Ball. (1881) IV. 170 He was become, for England's good, An endless Mine, a wasteless Flood. 1868A. C. Glyn tr. Ozanam's Hist. Civiliz. I. 95 The sun pouring forth a wasteless light. 1886W. F. Warren Serm. in Hom. Rev. Jan. 50 He started those wasteless fires and forces of the sun. |