Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being successless; want of success.
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- noun Lack of
success .
Etymologies
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successless + -ness
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Examples
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Whence, instead of being endeared to God, their contrivance is that of Mic.vi. 6, 7; and upon a conviction of the successlessness of any such attempts, they cry out, "Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?"
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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