houselessadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈhaʊsləs/, U.S.

/ˈhaʊsləs/

Forms: see house n.¹ and int. and -less suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: house n.¹, -less suffix.

Etymology: < house n.¹ + -less suffix. Compare Middle Dutch huusloos (Dutch huisloos ), Middle High German hūselōs (in an apparently isolated attestation; German hauslos ), Old Norwegian húslauss , Old Swedish huslös , husalös (Swedish †huslös ), all in sense A. 1. Compare homeless adj. In sense A. 2a after classical Latin inhospitus.

A. adj.

1. Of a person: not owning or living in a house or other property; having no permanent shelter or place of refuge. Now frequently coupled with homeless.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > homeless

homelessOE

harbourlessc1175

innlessa1325

houseless1357

placelessa1387

on the pavéc1450

unharbouredc1450

roomless1548

dishousedc1595

dislodged1602

unhouseda1616

unlodged1634

bedless1707

on the pavement1743

roofless1797

on (also upon) the street(s)1832

unhomed1839

dishomed1880

dwellingless1882

homesteadless1885

J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) l. 357 (MED) The ferthe is to herber tham that er houselesse.

1580 T. Lupton Siuqila (new ed.) 20 Many thereby are broughte into suche a consumption, that they are houselesse & landlesse, their purses penilesse.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 27 Your house-lesse heads, and vnfed sides.

1643 T. Case Quarrell of Covenant ii. 51 Thy sword, Prelacy, hath made..many a faithfull Minister peoplelesse, houselesse and libertylesse.

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 1 Where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door.

1793 T. Jefferson Let. 16 Aug. in Message President U.S. to Congr. 67 The wretched fugitives..who, escaping from the swords and flames of civil war, threw themselves on us naked and houseless, without food or friends.

1886 American 13 21 The homeless and houseless poor.

1924 Times 18 Sept. 14/2 Return to England and discharge has meant for these men..to find themselves workless and houseless in a land where more than a million other men are lacking work.

1957 F. O'Connor Let. 24 Aug. (1980) 238 My poor uncle is houseless. The Bell House is going to be bulldozed, beginning Monday.

2006 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 27 Dec. 31 Homelessness is not simply the issue of lacking a roof. That is being houseless.

†a. Of a person: inhospitable. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > hospitality > [adjective] > hospitable > not

houselessa1387

inhospitable1570

hostless1590

inhospitalious1596

inhospital1598

unhospitable1625

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 351 Men of þis lond beeþ..housles, and grete fiȝteres [L. gens inhospita, bellicosa].

b. Of a place, region, etc.: devoid of houses.Sometimes implying a lack of refuge or hospitality.

ΚΠ

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxx. 20 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 213 In a tent, in a howslesse harbour.

1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 23 Dreary, houseless, common fields, Worn by the plough.

1796 Tel. 3 June 2/1 The houseless Boroughs of Old Sarum, or Midhurst, send as many Members of Parliament as this county [sc. Yorkshire].

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. ii. 29 Our home is the houseless sward.

1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xviii. 174 We could see the sun going down into a field of great, wild and houseless mountains.

1911 Times 16 Nov. 10/3 Being about two miles from Lulworth Cove.., the way to which is across lonely, houseless downs, it formed a good hiding place for the newly-landed kegs of liquor.

1966 A. Ginsberg in Village Voice (N.Y.) 28 Apr. 19/1 Houseless brown farmland plains rolling heavenward.

2003 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 21 July 18 The houseless and permissively wild area of common ground, where nature is allowed..to run its unkempt course, in the name of biodiversity.

3. Of an animal (esp. a mollusc or crustacean): lacking a shell or other protective covering. houseless snail n. a slug.

ΚΠ

c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 10 (MED) Tak þe rede snyle þat crepis houseles & sethe it.

?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 32 (MED) Take snaylis þat crepit in houslese and bren hym and ley þer-to.

1827 E. Bevan Honey Bee xxxiii. 320 A houseless snail, or slug as it is called, had entered one of his hives.

1845 W. Wordsworth Borderers in Poems (new ed.) 40/2 Let her lie Besoiled with mire, and let the houseless snail Feed on her leaves.

1865 Trans. Entomol. Soc. 5 11 After wandering about houseless for a few days, and not having suitable materials at hand for the construction of a new home, it [a caddisfly larva] died.

1902 K. Pyle Stories Humble Friends vii. 58 The houseless crab looked wildly about him. Where could he find a shelter?

1955 Sci. News Let. 12 Feb. 110/2 Sometimes, two houseless hermit crabs, happening simultaneously upon a suitable empty shell, will stage a fierce battle for its possession.

1998 M. O'Brien Eclipse Sun (1999) 136 Are houseless snails condemned to wander aimlessly in search of a security that forever eludes them?

B. n.

With the. Houseless people considered as a class.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > homeless > collectively

houselessc1400

homeless1809

Legion of the lost1870

unhoused1886

c1400 15 Tokens in F. J. Furnivall Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 93 Herberewe þe housles.

a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1893) 90 297 (MED) Herber þe howsles.

?1550 M. Huggarde New Treatyse sig. Biiij^v Take the poore howsles, vnder thy couarte Suffre not the poore, in the strete to dye.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §2. 410 Help the helplesse, harbour the houselesse, deliver the distressed, and defend the wronged.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. x. 154 Though religion is very kind to all men, it has promised peculiar reward to the unhappy; the sick, the naked, the houseless, the heavy-laden, [etc.].

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon IV. iii. 94 Is it in this country a crime to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, and to shelter the houseless?

1838 H. Blunt Seven Churches Asia 77 We all feel for the houseless and destitute.

1858 A. S. Mayhew Paved with Gold iv. 28 After paying for her night's lodging she had eked out what was left of the shilling she had received at the asylum for the houseless.

1923 Times 7 Feb. 11/5 May I urge the far larger interest of the houseless, of those who want homes and cannot find them?

2009 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 10 July 35 Like the poor, the homeless and the houseless will always be with us.

Derivatives

ˈhouselessness n. the condition of being houseless or lacking housing.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > having no dwelling place

homelessness1814

houselessness1819

bedlessness1861

1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 229 The night—the storms—the houselessness.

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 21 July 351/1 A cry of loneliness and houselessness.

1926 Times 1 Jan. 12/5 The two most distressing problems of to-day, houselessness and unemployment.

2005 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Apr. c4 A misdiagnosis of the problem: that homelessness in America was a housing problem. But homelessness cannot be reduced to houselessness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	houseless
释义	houselessadj.n. Brit. /ˈhaʊsləs/, U.S. /ˈhaʊsləs/ Forms: see house n.¹ and int. and -less suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: house n.¹, -less suffix. Etymology: < house n.¹ + -less suffix. Compare Middle Dutch huusloos (Dutch huisloos ), Middle High German hūselōs (in an apparently isolated attestation; German hauslos ), Old Norwegian húslauss , Old Swedish huslös , husalös (Swedish †huslös ), all in sense A. 1. Compare homeless adj. In sense A. 2a after classical Latin inhospitus. A. adj. 1. Of a person: not owning or living in a house or other property; having no permanent shelter or place of refuge. Now frequently coupled with homeless. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > homeless homelessOE harbourlessc1175 innlessa1325 houseless1357 placelessa1387 on the pavéc1450 unharbouredc1450 roomless1548 dishousedc1595 dislodged1602 unhouseda1616 unlodged1634 bedless1707 on the pavement1743 roofless1797 on (also upon) the street(s)1832 unhomed1839 dishomed1880 dwellingless1882 homesteadless1885 J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) l. 357 (MED) The ferthe is to herber tham that er houselesse. 1580 T. Lupton Siuqila (new ed.) 20 Many thereby are broughte into suche a consumption, that they are houselesse & landlesse, their purses penilesse. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 27 Your house-lesse heads, and vnfed sides. View more context for this quotation 1643 T. Case Quarrell of Covenant ii. 51 Thy sword, Prelacy, hath made..many a faithfull Minister peoplelesse, houselesse and libertylesse. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 1 Where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door. 1793 T. Jefferson Let. 16 Aug. in Message President U.S. to Congr. 67 The wretched fugitives..who, escaping from the swords and flames of civil war, threw themselves on us naked and houseless, without food or friends. 1886 American 13 21 The homeless and houseless poor. 1924 Times 18 Sept. 14/2 Return to England and discharge has meant for these men..to find themselves workless and houseless in a land where more than a million other men are lacking work. 1957 F. O'Connor Let. 24 Aug. (1980) 238 My poor uncle is houseless. The Bell House is going to be bulldozed, beginning Monday. 2006 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 27 Dec. 31 Homelessness is not simply the issue of lacking a roof. That is being houseless. 2. †a. Of a person: inhospitable. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > hospitality > [adjective] > hospitable > not houselessa1387 inhospitable1570 hostless1590 inhospitalious1596 inhospital1598 unhospitable1625 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 351 Men of þis lond beeþ..housles, and grete fiȝteres [L. gens inhospita, bellicosa]. b. Of a place, region, etc.: devoid of houses.Sometimes implying a lack of refuge or hospitality. ΚΠ c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxx. 20 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 213 In a tent, in a howslesse harbour. 1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 23 Dreary, houseless, common fields, Worn by the plough. 1796 Tel. 3 June 2/1 The houseless Boroughs of Old Sarum, or Midhurst, send as many Members of Parliament as this county [sc. Yorkshire]. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. ii. 29 Our home is the houseless sward. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xviii. 174 We could see the sun going down into a field of great, wild and houseless mountains. 1911 Times 16 Nov. 10/3 Being about two miles from Lulworth Cove.., the way to which is across lonely, houseless downs, it formed a good hiding place for the newly-landed kegs of liquor. 1966 A. Ginsberg in Village Voice (N.Y.) 28 Apr. 19/1 Houseless brown farmland plains rolling heavenward. 2003 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 21 July 18 The houseless and permissively wild area of common ground, where nature is allowed..to run its unkempt course, in the name of biodiversity. 3. Of an animal (esp. a mollusc or crustacean): lacking a shell or other protective covering. houseless snail n. a slug. ΚΠ c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 10 (MED) Tak þe rede snyle þat crepis houseles & sethe it. ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 32 (MED) Take snaylis þat crepit in houslese and bren hym and ley þer-to. 1827 E. Bevan Honey Bee xxxiii. 320 A houseless snail, or slug as it is called, had entered one of his hives. 1845 W. Wordsworth Borderers in Poems (new ed.) 40/2 Let her lie Besoiled with mire, and let the houseless snail Feed on her leaves. 1865 Trans. Entomol. Soc. 5 11 After wandering about houseless for a few days, and not having suitable materials at hand for the construction of a new home, it [a caddisfly larva] died. 1902 K. Pyle Stories Humble Friends vii. 58 The houseless crab looked wildly about him. Where could he find a shelter? 1955 Sci. News Let. 12 Feb. 110/2 Sometimes, two houseless hermit crabs, happening simultaneously upon a suitable empty shell, will stage a fierce battle for its possession. 1998 M. O'Brien Eclipse Sun (1999) 136 Are houseless snails condemned to wander aimlessly in search of a security that forever eludes them? B. n. With the. Houseless people considered as a class. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > homeless > collectively houselessc1400 homeless1809 Legion of the lost1870 unhoused1886 c1400 15 Tokens in F. J. Furnivall Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 93 Herberewe þe housles. a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1893) 90 297 (MED) Herber þe howsles. ?1550 M. Huggarde New Treatyse sig. Biiij^v Take the poore howsles, vnder thy couarte Suffre not the poore, in the strete to dye. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §2. 410 Help the helplesse, harbour the houselesse, deliver the distressed, and defend the wronged. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. x. 154 Though religion is very kind to all men, it has promised peculiar reward to the unhappy; the sick, the naked, the houseless, the heavy-laden, [etc.]. 1799 W. Godwin St. Leon IV. iii. 94 Is it in this country a crime to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, and to shelter the houseless? 1838 H. Blunt Seven Churches Asia 77 We all feel for the houseless and destitute. 1858 A. S. Mayhew Paved with Gold iv. 28 After paying for her night's lodging she had eked out what was left of the shilling she had received at the asylum for the houseless. 1923 Times 7 Feb. 11/5 May I urge the far larger interest of the houseless, of those who want homes and cannot find them? 2009 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 10 July 35 Like the poor, the homeless and the houseless will always be with us. Derivatives ˈhouselessness n. the condition of being houseless or lacking housing. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > having no dwelling place homelessness1814 houselessness1819 bedlessness1861 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 229 The night—the storms—the houselessness. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 21 July 351/1 A cry of loneliness and houselessness. 1926 Times 1 Jan. 12/5 The two most distressing problems of to-day, houselessness and unemployment. 2005 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Apr. c4 A misdiagnosis of the problem: that homelessness in America was a housing problem. But homelessness cannot be reduced to houselessness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1357
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