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guideless, a.|ˈgaɪdlɪs|
[f. guide n. + -less.]
1. Without a guide to show the way. † Of a ship: Without a steersman.
1557North tr. Gueuara's Diall Pr. 262 b/2 Not seing y⊇ wherilpole, guidles I entred in the rashnes of my youth. 1598J. Dickenson Greene in Conc. (1878) 151 Some guidelesse Pinnace in a storme. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. §210. 861 The greatest of their Galliasses..lost her Rudder, so that guidelesse she droue with the tyde vpon a shelue in the shoare of Callis. 1665Dryden Ind. Emperor ii. i. Dram. Wks. 1725 I. 345 Empty Shades..Which guideless in those dark Dominions stray. 1703Pope Thebais 105 Deprived of eyes, Guideless I wander. 1855Tait's Mag. XXII. 544 A flat, guideless waste. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. i. §1 A traveller..who had to recommence an interrupted journey in a guideless country.
2. Without a guide or director; without a controller or ruler.
1561Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc v. ii. (1590) G ij b, Thus leaue this guideles realme an open pray To endlesse stormes. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxxvi. §1. 136 The now guide⁓lesse Army of Rome, occupied only in spoile and mutiny, their Leaders in faction. 1616–61B. Holyday Persius 304 Whether is the fittest guard..for a young guidless ward? 1635–56Cowley Davideis iv. 243 Where e're his Guidless Passion leads his Will. 1662Dryden Astræa Redux 12 Th' ambitious Swede..To his now guideless kingdom peace bequeath'd. 1725Pope Odyss. ii. 219 His guide-less youth, if thy experienc'd age Mislead. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 27 Their guideless, ungrounded, and thoughtless Fancies. 1827Hare Guesses (1859) 457 The poor guideless Heathens. 1869Ruskin Q. of Air §158 Helpless and guideless, he indulges his idiosyncracies till they change into insanities.
Hence ˈguidelessness, guideless condition.
1850Kingsley Alt. Locke ii. (1879) 28 Hast thou too to fight with poverty and guidelessness? |