newless
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newless (comparative more newless, superlative most newless)
- (rare) Not containing anything new; lacking news or novelty.
- 1887, The Popular Poets and Poetry of Ireland:
- Each of these newless bonds binds friend to friend With strength no selfish purpose can secure.
- 1907, Colyer Meriwether, Publications of the Southern History Association - Volume 11, page 237:
- Dearest Marion — I wrote you two letters yesterday and if I consulted your pleasure would not trouble you by reading a dull and newless letter today, but I cannot forego my "daily food" of Correspondence of Thomas Cobb.
- 1978, Freedom of Information Center Report - Issues 383-449, page P-65:
- Toward the end of August, while the long, hot, "newless” summer was still going strong, Carter embarked on the Mississippi riverboat, the “Delta Queen," for what can only be described as a good-old-fashioned, week-long, whistle-stopping campaign trip.
- 1996, Sonja Sekula, Roger Perret, Im Zeichen der Frage, im Zeichen der Antwort, →ISBN, page 134:
- A prayer […] to know what to really pray to, to be certain by feeling with and without closed eyes of a newless experience […]
- (programming, not comparable) Not containing or using an operator new.
- This is an example of newless instantiation.