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NAMELESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or having an unknown or unnamed source
Example:
an unnamed donor
Synonyms:
nameless; unidentified; unknown; unnamed
Classified under:
Similar:
anon.; anonymous (having no known name or identity or known source)
Derivation:
namelessness (the state of being anonymous)
Context examples:
And he punched on and on, slower and slower, as the last shreds of vitality oozed from him, through centuries and aeons and enormous lapses of time, until, in a dim way, he became aware that the nameless thing was sinking, slowly sinking down to the rough board-planking of the bridge.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had never seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their principals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I grew to await it with a nameless dread.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Aye, aye, said Mrs. Jennings, we know the reason of all that very well; if a certain person who shall be nameless, had been there, you would not have been a bit tired: and to say the truth it was not very pretty of him not to give you the meeting when he was invited.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But no one stopped it, and he was glad, punching on wearily and endlessly with his one arm, battering away at a bloody something before him that was not a face but a horror, an oscillating, hideous, gibbering, nameless thing that persisted before his wavering vision and would not go away.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
