clerkless
English
Etymology
clerk + -less
Adjective
clerkless (not comparable)
- Without clerks.
- 1940, John Thomas Flynn, Country Squire in the White House, page 32:
- Whatever the cause of the failure, the clerkless store did not materialize.
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- (obsolete) uneducated
- E. Waterhouse
- Like the Turk, whose military janisaries and bashaws rule all in their clerkless and cruel way.
- E. Waterhouse
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for clerkless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)