titleless

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From Middle English titleles, titlelees, equivalent to title +‎ -less.

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titleless (comparative more titleless, superlative most titleless)

  1. Having no title; nameless.
    • 2010, Larry McMurtry, Moving On, page 7:
      The first four drafts were swept down a manhole and a long, titleless book began to evolve.
  2. Without noble title; common.
    • 1623, Shakespeare, Coriolanus, V, I, 11:
      Coriolanus / He would not answer to: forbad all names; / He was a kind of nothing, titleless, / Till he had forged himself a name o' the fire / Of burning Rome.

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