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reˈwardless, a.
[f. reward n. + -less.]
Devoid of reward; unrewarded.
a1470Tiptoft Tulle on Friendship (Caxton, 1481) b vij, For Vertue is neyther uncurtoyse ne rewardless, ne proude. 1552Huloet, Rewardles, as for thankes onely, or vnhiered. 1687Shadwell tr. Juvenal x. 213 Virtue's less thirsted for than Fame, for who, Her, for her self, Rewardless will pursue? 1827Pollok Course T. 1, Yet haply not rewardless we shall trace The dark disastrous years of finished Time. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 424 Wasted affection, and rewardless semi-virtue. |