Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being bribed; not to be bribed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Incapable of being
bribed ; free from bribes.
Etymologies
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bribe + -less
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Examples
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It was bound in quiet palmer's fresh apparel -- to Heaven's bribeless hall,
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Where all his life he stood, with bribeless hands,
A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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There may be an appearance of irreverence in the way in which he contrasts the bribeless Hall of Heaven with the proceedings at his own trial, where he was browbeaten, abused, and, from the very commencement, treated as a guilty man by Sir Edward Coke, the king's attorney.
England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868
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