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boonless, a.|ˈbuːnlɪs| [f. boon n. + -less.] Without a boon. (In boonless boon (imitating Gr. ἄδωρον δῶρον) ‘a gift that is no gift.).
1863P. S. Worsley Phaethon, Poems & Transl. 6 Thou hast asked a boonless boon. Ibid. 13 How boonless were the boon, if this were all. |