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Definition of Bootlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootlessness
Literary usage of Bootlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"Stranger still, that she should have stuck yet closer to it in 1827, when ehe
had had still ampler time to learn the bootlessness of the possession ! ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... which beguile the weariness of the journey, and make us sometimes forget its
bootlessness. None of these flowers, however, are indigenous to so barren a ..."
3. A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico by Edith O'Shaughnessy (1916)
"... the hill could have seen them he would have recognized all the might and
majesty of our land and the bootlessness of any struggle. ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"... opticians (notwithstanding the total bootlessness of such a superabundance)
of course take pleasure in making such "superior" lenses, and the natural ..."
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