Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inactive; unmarked by deeds or exploits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.
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- adjective obsolete Helpless; not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Exercising genuine choice has to be based on grounds; otherwise it is a dumb, deedless expression of momentary desire.
Savitri Erans are for participating in active politics representing a distinct religious denomination Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Exercising genuine choice has to be based on grounds; otherwise it is a dumb, deedless expression of momentary desire.
Archive 2008-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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And no stir in her folded linen and the deedless hands on her knees:
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With half-closed lips untrembling, with deedless hands and cold
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His action was motivated by his hatred of a world in which something is constantly going on, and in the midst of which he was condemned to an inactive and deedless life.
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
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It would be very ill if he should chance to lose the play -- though of this he had no fear, for he was held the strongest man in Iceland and the most skilled in all feats of strength -- and, at the best, no fame is to be won from the overthrow of a deedless man, and the plucking out of his eye.
Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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In the deedless dark he rideth, and all things he remembers save one,
The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature Conrad Hjalmar Nordby 1883
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His aristocracy does not sit in a corner, deedless and meritless, brooding over a transmitted name and sucking the orange of empty self-conceit: it is the aristocracy of achievement and of nature -- the solid superiority of having done the brightest and best deeds that could be done in his time and of being the greatest man of his generation.
Shadows of the Stage William Winter 1876
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'But,' said Face-of-god, 'of one thing ye may be sure, that these men will not abide our pleasure till we cut them all off in scattered bands, nor will they sit deedless at home.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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Nor be mocked of the dead men for deedless and pale.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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