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单词 messageless
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messagelessadj.

Brit. /ˈmɛsɪdʒlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmɛsɪdʒlᵻs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: message n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < message n. + -less suffix.
Lacking a message; spec. having lost God's message (see message n. 3b). Also: having no message to communicate.
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1925 Brit. Weekly 18 June 268/2 He lost his faith in the Bible..and (to use his own significant words) ‘I became a messageless man’.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 283 The dark and gleaming beauty of the messageless gods.
1997 A. Cluysenaar Timeslips 103 The river flows again, thickening, messageless on our tongues.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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