futilous

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Adjective

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futilous (comparative more futilous, superlative most futilous)

  1. (obsolete) futile; trifling
    • 1659, Samuel Lee, Orbis miraculum, or, The temple of Solomon [] :
      Vain and futilous are the feavourish dreams of the antient Rabbins
    • 1674, John Owen, A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God [] [1]:
      futilous imaginations for the future

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