bootlessness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]bootless + -ness; see boot (“profit”).
Noun
[edit]bootlessness (uncountable)
- (archaic) The quality of being unavailing or unprofitable.
- The state of being bootless (without boots)
References
[edit]- “bootless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.