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ˈpropertyless, a.
Also propertiless (cf. merciless, pitiless).
[f. property n. + -less.]
Devoid of property; having no property. Also ellipt. as n.
1822W. Cobbett Cottage Econ. 107 They were formerly the sons and daughters of small farmers; they are now the progeny of miserable property-less labourers. 1880Fortn. Rev. Apr. 536 The population will always be the propertyless, pauperised labourers. 1886W. Graham Soc. Probl. 333 The fear of the uncertain morrow, with all its danger for the propertiless. 1912Belloc Servile State i. 16 Two classes of free citizens, the one capitalist or owning, the other propertyless or proletarian. 1941R. Humphreys Latin Amer. 20 For the Indian and the propertyless, independence meant not new freedom but new masters. 1977Dædalus Summer 72 They predicted, in Hegelian fashion, an abolition of private property and class ownership of the means of production by a regenerated communism among the propertyless masses.
Hence ˈpropertylessness, the state of being propertyless.
1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxxiii. 357 Hence the specter of joblessness and propertylessness in the electric age. |