accesslessadj.
/ˈaksɛsləs/, U.S. /ˈæksɛsləs/ Originally poetic.
Having no means of access or approach; inaccessible. Later also: having no access to something.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adjective] > affording access > accessible > inaccessible
inaccessible?a1475
unwinnablec1540
improachable?a1560
inaccesse?1567
unapproachable1574
unreachablea1586
unaccessible1596
dreich1597
accessless?1614
approachless1647
wind-bound1647
uncome-at-able1694
inapproachable1828
unget-at-able1862
?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses vii. 106 A ruthlesse billow smit Against huge rocks, and an accesslesse shore, My mangl'd body.
1730 W. Hay Mount Caburn 11 Now her dreaded Fleets, at her Command, herself accessless, visit every Land.
a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) IV. 296 Th' accessless wilds Of bleak-brow'd mountains.
1852 Fraser's Mag. 45 452 The corpse of him most dear to me is left, To rot, unwashed, amid accessless rocks.
a1881 J. L. Diman Theistic Argument as affected by Recent Theories (1882) iii. 79 The Divine Being seems so far removed from us in accessless majesty.
1994 Times-Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 20 Mar. g1 Some predict that one side effect of the new technology will be the creation of an accessless underclass that can't handle or afford the technology.
1995 W. V. Spanos Errant Art Moby-Dick iii. 103 The Panopticon's central tower, like Mapple's elevated and accessless pulpit.., affords a metaphysical/panoptic vantage point.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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