单词 | boonless |
释义 | boonlessadj. Without a boon. (In boonless boon (imitating Greek ἄδωρον δῶρον) ‘a gift that is no gift.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [adjective] > that is not a gift boonless1863 1863 P. S. Worsley Phaethon in Poems & Transl. 6 Thou hast asked a boonless boon. 1863 P. S. Worsley Phaethon in Poems & Transl. 13 How boonless were the boon, if this were all. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1863 |
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