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Definition of Meaninglessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meaninglessly
Literary usage of Meaninglessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1910)
">rocess, it is meaninglessly generated to be as meaninglessly snuffed out ; and
the sole rôle of ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"207. meaninglessly (me'ning-les-li), adv. Without meaning or significance. [Rare.]
A fact inexplicable on the theory that the tenses are used meaninglessly, ..."
3. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"He was talking quite meaninglessly, only watching her. Her grey eyes at last met
his. They looked dumb with humiliation, pleading with a kind of captive ..."
4. The Interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (1913)
"The numeral 18, with which the judgment in the dream is meaninglessly connected,
still preserves a trace of the context from which the real judgment was ..."