Definitions
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- adjective Having no beacon.
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- adjective Without a
beacon .
Etymologies
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beacon + -less
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Examples
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-- And they begin to hail this flying, beaconless bark, not perceived so much as suspected, lost at once in the universal, nocturnal confusion.
Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886
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Beyond it his eye sought instinctively for the Clock Tower, which stood to-night dull and beaconless -- like some one in a stupid silence.
Marcella Humphry Ward 1885
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