plightless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English plightles, plyȝtles, equivalent to plight +‎ -less.

Adjective[edit]

plightless (comparative more plightless, superlative most plightless)

  1. Devoid of plight
    • 2013, Martin Heidegger, The Event, page 85:
      Finally arrives the prospect of storing up a “potentiality” of powers which can be sufficient, in the most plightless moment of the age of the complete lack of a sense of plight, to deliver up the globe, along with its atmosphere, to an explosive charge.