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Definition of Townless
1. a. Having no town.
Definition of Townless
1. Adjective. Without a town or towns. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Townless
1. having no towns [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Townless
Literary usage of Townless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1893)
"Cappadocia had only recently become a province, had no ' citizen population,'
and, as almost townless and comparatively barbarous, cannot be regarded as a ..."
2. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1840)
"... or from following him over the surface of his trackless and townless territory ;
besides which, if we reflect for a moment how grotesque the powdered ..."
3. Men, Women & Manners in Colonial Times by Sydney George Fisher (1897)
"The province was almost as townless as Virginia, but the natural conditions seemed
to show somewhat more reason for the existence of towns, ..."
4. The Dark Ages, 476-918 by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1908)
"Maurice sent orders that the victorious troops should winter in the open field,
upon the bleak townless plains of Wallachia, in order to save supplies. ..."
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