Plightless

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Devoid of plight

    "Finally arrives the prospect of storing up a “potentiality” of powers which can be sufficient, in the most plightless moment of the age of the complete lack of a sense of plight, to deliver up the globe, along with its atmosphere, to an explosive charge."

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"Finally arrives the prospect of storing up a “potentiality” of powers which can be sufficient, in the most plightless moment of the age of the complete lack of a sense of plight, to deliver up the globe, along with its atmosphere, to an explosive charge."

Etymology

From Middle English plightles, plyȝtles, equivalent to plight + -less.

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