indexlessadj.
/ˈɪndɛkslɪs/ Having no index.
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society > communication > book > matter of book > [adjective] > index > having no
indexless1858
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. viii. 272 The date, in these indexless Books, is blown away again.
1889 Sat. Rev. 31 Aug. 250/2 Few writers are so indexless in all editions as Hazlitt.
1893 E. Coues in Hist. Lewis & Clark Exp. I. p. cxxv There ought to be a law against indexless books.
Derivatives
ˈindexlessness n.
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society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > index > condition of having no
indexlessness1888
1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 174 Certainly no reader of the last year's volume of the Gazette can complain, in Carlylean phrase, of its ‘indexlessness’.
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