bootlessnessn.
Uselessness; unprofitableness.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > uselessness or unproductiveness
fruitlessness1615
sterility1661
profitlessness1822
bootlessness1830
unfruitfulness1850
resultlessness1852
1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 472 Which beguile the weariness of the journey, and make us sometimes forget its bootlessness.
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n.1830- to bring, drive to scorn
- to bring, drive, put, reduce to extremity or extremities
- to bring, drive, put, reduce to the last extremity or extremities
- to bring, get, haul, or put the tacks aboard
- to bring, have under foot
- to bring, make to shond
- to bring, make, set at one
- to bring, put an a tragedy on the stage
- to bring, put an etc on the stage
- to bring, put an opera on the stage
- to bring, put on the stage
- to bring, reduce formerly also drive to a nonplus
- to bring, reduce formerly also put to a nonplus
- to bring, reduce to a nonplus
- to bring, shape, turn to shame
- to bring, to draw, to cure to a scar
- to brisk about
- to brisk up
- to bristle up
- to bristle with difficulties
- to broach to
- to broaden one's horizon
- to broaden one's horizons
- to brood on or over
- to brood up