单词 | titleless |
释义 | titlelessadj. 1. Having no title (in various senses of title n.); untitled. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adjective] > not having certain privileges > having no rightful claim or unentitled titlelessc1405 wrongful1567 untitleda1616 unentitleda1768 claimless1814 the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [adjective] unnevenedc1400 unnamed1550 anonymal1587 untituled1610 untitled1612 titlelessa1616 anonymous1625 namelessc1625 innominate1638 innominated1660 unchristened1832 undesignated1875 uncredited1959 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [adjective] > untitled or not invested with dignity coatless1586 unknighted1596 undubbed1602 crestlessa1616 unraiseda1616 unlorded1641 unadditioneda1661 untitled1798 uncoroneted1817 unscutcheoned1827 unennobled1830 undiademed1846 titleless1881 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 119 Right so bitwix a titlelees tiraunt And an Outlawe or a theef erraunt The same I seye ther is no difference. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. i. 13 He was a kinde of Nothing, Titlelesse, Till he had forg'd himselfe a name a'th'fire Of burning Rome. View more context for this quotation 1674 M. Scrivener Course Divinity i. xxvi. 104 If it be a true and reasonable distinction of Tyrants into Titled and Titleless. 1796 G. D. Harley Poems 149 That most expensive, titleless estate, Whose poor possessor, tenant but at will, Knows not the moment but he needs must quit. 1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 619/1 The titleless condition of her father. 1936 M. Mitchell Let. 5 Sept. in Gone with the Wind Lett. (1986) 61 Just as we were going to press titleless, I picked ‘Gone With the Wind’. 2006 Stud. in Amer. Indian Literatures 18 52 The titleless, hand-corrected typescript..is 114 pages long and unfinished. 2. That has not won any championship, cup, etc.; characterized by the failure to win a title.Usually in the language of sports journalism. ΚΠ 1951 Beverley (W. Austral.) Times 26 Apr. (Mod. Weekly News Mag.) 10/6 Title-less but not dispirited, Marcel returned home, with Jake's guarantee in his pocket, that he would fight a return on September 23. 1980 Times 27 Dec. 6/ The two Austrian players competing there had low Elo ratings and were indeed titleless. 2017 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 5 Oct. zs1 The Cleveland Indians, while still the toast of their town, still bear the burden of a titleless history since 1948. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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