Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Weak; feeble; pithless.

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Examples

  • Kelly says of the word "foisonless," that it means "without strength or sap; dried up; withered."

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

  • Insurrection of Women, how foisonless, unedifying, undelightful; like small ale palled, like an effervescence that has effervesced!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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  • From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution

    March 6, 2011