valourless

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Adjective[edit]

valourless (comparative more valourless, superlative most valourless)

  1. Alternative form of valorless
    • 1954, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome, →ISBN:
      May they possess their own land, and may their influence come again from Italy to save from jar,and boasting, and ineptitude the foolish, valourless cities, and the garish crowds of shouting men.
    • 1976, Robert L. Dawson, Baculard D'Arnaud: Life and Prose Fiction, page 504:
      Sargines, explaining the situation of his valourless son to the king, is overcome: 'A ces mots, un ruisseau de larmes coule des yeux du chevalier' (p.13).
    • 1984, Viśvanātha Limaye, Historic Rama of Valmiki: Satyagrahi Rama, page 84:
      Yet the whole land became valourless as if it lacked brave people.
    • 1994, K. S. Srinivasan, Rāmāyaṇam: As Told by Vālmīki and Kamban, →ISBN, page 134:
      Soft and kind as I am, they would think of me as valourless.