单词 | historyless |
释义 | historylessadj. Lacking or without history; not having a noteworthy or eventful past. ΚΠ 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). < adj.1876 |
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