kneelessadj.
rare.
Without a knee or knees: in quot. 1631 (nonce-use) That refuses to kneel.
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Puritant1580
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disciplinarian1591
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pure1598
puritanical1598
puritanian1601
puritanic1606
kneeless1631
prick-eared1641
precisianicala1652
Catharistic1838
perfectionistic1884
hot-gospelling1891
Patarene1902
wowserish1933
1631 G. Widdowes (title) The lawlesse kneelesse schismaticall Puritan.
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adj.1631- to burn metals together
- to burn off
- to burn on
- to burn one's boats
- to burn one's bridges
- to burn one's bridges behind one
- to burn one's candle at both ends
- to burn one's fingers
- to burn one's foot
- to burn one's poker
- to burn one's ships
- to burn oneself out
- to burn out
- to burn out of house and home
- to burn out, forth
- to burn rubber
- to burn seasonable weather
- to burn the candle at both ends
- to burn the earth or wind
- to burn the ground bare
- to burn the ken
- to burn the midnight oil
- to burn the mill
- to burn the planks
- to burn the rump