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Definition of Codeless
1. being without a set of laws [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Codeless
Literary usage of Codeless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Liberty and Law, Or, Outlines of a New System for the Organization and by Britton Armstrong Hill (1880)
"... Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent,
That wilderness of single instances Through which a few, by wit or fortune ..."
2. Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced by John Bartlett (1906)
"Mastering the lawless science of our law, — That codeless myriad of precedent,
That wilderness of single instances. Aylmer't Field. ..."
3. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1878)
"The lawless science of our law— That codeless myriad of precedent, Tlmt wilderness
of single instances. — Tennyson. A woman, left alone with all her fears, ..."
4. The Exemplary Theatre by Harley Granville-Barker (1922)
"In that it is as honourable as a profession, codeless though it be. No parson or
doctor or civil servant could be, in practice, more disinterested than the ..."
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