Definition of Deedless

1. a. Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.

Definition of Deedless

1. Adjective. (obsolete) Helpless; not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive. ¹

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Definition of Deedless

1. being without deeds [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deedless

deed over
deed poll
deedbox
deede
deeded
deeder
deedes
deedest
deedful
deedholder
deedholders
deedier
deediest
deedily
deeding
deedless (current term)
deeds
deeds poll
deedy
deef
deein
deeing
deejay
deejayed
deejaying
deejays
deek
deeked
deekied
deekies

Literary usage of Deedless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"See deedless in Atkinson's Cleveland Glossary. Miss LAHM. Theer git Jinny starin' at th' owd lass loike one l86* ..."

2. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"Instant, he cried, your female discord end, Ye deedless boasters ! and the song attend. POPE. Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue. SHAKSPEARE. ..."

3. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes : Authors by Samuel Austin Allibone (1896)
"Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue. SHAKSPEARE. From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by th' doer's deed. DELAY. ..."

4. Studies in Shakespeare by John Churton Collins (1904)
"... but young the frame he bears) ; or Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5 : — Speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue ; and Philoctetes, 97 : — -f\wff<rai> ..."

5. A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect by John Howard Nodal, George Milner (1875)
"... See deedless in Atkinson's Cleveland Glossary. MIss LAHEE. Theer sit Jinny starin' at th' owd lass loike one l865' dateless. ..."

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