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Nameless   /nˈeɪmləs/   Listen
adjective
Nameless  adj.  
1.
Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star.
2.
Undistinguished; not noted or famous. "A nameless dwelling and an unknown name."
3.
Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless pens."
4.
Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible. "But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can not name; 't is nameless woe,I wot." "I have a nameless horror of the man."





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"Nameless" Quotes from Famous Books



... thee, too, are the floods, the wild rivers, Overrunning thy thought, the nameless mind? How else, indeed? Nay, we are dull with joy: Of thee we thought not, out of the hands of outrage Coming back, although with victory coming. But this makes surety once more of my thought, And gives again my reason its lost station; For it may ...
— Emblems Of Love • Lascelles Abercrombie
... tiresome the pupil is tired in a moment. Thus we have the converse danger of forcing knowledge upon unwilling and unripe minds that have no love for it, which is in many ways psychologically akin to a nameless crime that in some parts of ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall
... he went slowly now, feeling that this pace was more suited to the condition of his chum's nerves. Harry followed resolutely, though none but himself knew how much effort it took for him to keep on in the face of such a nameless yet terrible dread as now ...
— The Young Engineers on the Gulf - The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater • H. Irving Hancock
... few years nothing will remain of them but a nameless barrow. The day may come, when even conjecture will be at fault, as with the builders of the western mounds, in determining who they were, from whom they originated, what were their peculiar opinions, and the various other ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... answered in a low voice. "Who am I, my lord, that I should oppose the will of the princess? A nameless maiden, meet only to yoke with ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason


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