| 释义 |
ˈnewsless, a.
[f. news n. + -less.]
Destitute or devoid of news.
1746H. Walpole Lett. clxix. (1833) II. 191 We are in such a news-less situation, that I have been some time too without writing to you. 1754Ibid. (1846) III. 83, I am as newsless as in the dead of summer. 1865Daily Tel. 13 Apr. 5 The disappointed and newsless Briton. 1881Blackw. Mag. CXXX. 270 His adventures were like a page from the ‘Arabian Nights’ after the soldier's newsless life.
Hence ˈnewslessness.
1864Sala in Daily Tel. 3 Sept., The earlier pangs of news⁓lessness [being] assuaged. |