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Definition of Bathless
1. not having had a bath [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bathless
Literary usage of Bathless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. After-war Problems by Evelyn Baring Cromer, William Harbutt Dawson (1917)
"The bathless, ragged, hungry child who sleeps in a bed with five other persons goes
... In the camp school no child is bathless, or hungry ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1878)
"If these results are compared with those obtained from the observations made on
the same lads on the bathless days, it will be seen that the two sets of ..."
3. A portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1807)
"For prayer, indeed," says this venerable man, " was the Sabbath ordained.
Yet prayer itself is sab- bathless, and admits of no rest, no intermission at all. ..."
4. Adventures in Interviewing by Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1919)
"... sugarless, bathless and almost breadless. The only thing we had in abundance
was odour, which is an essential part of Petrograd "atmosphere. ..."
5. The Valley of Democracy by Meredith Nicholson (1918)
"... of the meddlesome land-grant colleges, bent upon showing him a better way of
life. I was pondering the plight of the bathless farmhouse when a ..."
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