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cityless, a.|ˈsɪtɪlɪs|
[see -less.]
1. Without a city or cities, having no city.
a1400–50Alexander 2286 Sirres, by my sothe, quod þe segge, Sitiles I hiȝt. Qwi so..How tidis it þe & tounles þi toname is callid? 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 159 Great Britain must no longer incur the barbarous note, of being City-lesse in Cæsar's daies. 1872Longfellow Christus 199 The cityless river, that flows From fountains that no one knows, Through the lake of Galilee.
†2. nonce-use. That is no city. Obs.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. Irel. 86 In steed of a city it is altogether as one saith πόλις ἄπολις that is A City Citylesse, or The remains of that which was a city. |