| 释义 |
landless, a.|ˈlændlɪs|
[f. land n.1 + -less.]
1. Not possessing land; having no landed property.
c1000Laws of æthelstan ii. c. 8 in Schmid Gesetze 136 Be landleasum mannum..ᵹif hwylc landleas man folᵹode on oðre scire. 1540–1Elyot Image Gov. 115 We shall neither haue usurour dwell in this citee, nor gentilmen landlesse. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. i. 98 Young Fortinbras..Hath..Shark'd vp a List of Landlesse Resolutes. 1638Brome Antipodes i. i. Wks. 1873 III. 234 As mad as landlesse Squire could bee. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. xxxi, A landless prince, whose wandering life Is but one scene of blood and strife. 1865Edin. Rev. CXXI. 36 Turned adrift landless and homeless. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 102 The negro, poor, landless, and deserted by the North.
2. Without land, void of land.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 1197 A Fruit⁓less, Flood-less, yea a Land-less Land. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. 16 Risk dying in an unknown landless sea. Ibid., Within the landless waters of the west.
Hence ˈlandlessness.
1851H. Melville Whale xxiii. 118 In landlessness alone resides the highest truth. |