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单词 historyless
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historylessadj.

Brit. /ˈhɪst(ə)rɪlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈhɪst(ə)rilᵻs/
Forms: 1800s– historiless, 1800s– historyless.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: history n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < history n. + -less suffix.
Lacking or without history; not having a noteworthy or eventful past.
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1876 Ladies' Repository Dec. 522 What pretense to put our American lakes, stifled with their saltless atmospheres, as history-less as a droning beetle, by the side of..the mid-world ocean of the Eastern Continent!
1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow x. 263 The half of the year of the soul is cold and historiless!
1935 Pennsylvania Hist. 2 33 Has Pennsylvania been historyless for the last century?
1990 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Jan. vii. 13/1 Folk art..is not the impoverished work of anonymous folk in historyless societies.
2006 G. Gorenberg Accidental Empire 85 He was a Tel Aviv poet, in love with his bright, modern, historyless Mediterranean city.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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