placelessadj.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 261 Þanne þe Saxons, strong men of armes, and placelees [v.r. placeles] to wone ynne [?a1475 anon. tr. vagaunte as for habitacion; L. sedibus vaga], were i-prayed of þe Britouns forto come in to Bretayne.

1848 Times 27 Jan. 4/1 He is a homeless, friendless, placeless outcast, without aim or hope in existence.

1882 Harper's Mag. Nov. 950/1 They go circling about the world, aimless, placeless, with no more influence on real politics than the pointers and setters of the United Kingdom.

1969 W. Berry Native Hill in Long-Legged House III. 185 The road builders, on the contrary, were placeless people.

1993 Guardian 13 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 36/4 When men appear, they are on the periphery, lost souls in a matriarchy, dazed, placeless and without any clear function.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 308 Holding a place-lesse place.

1612 J. Taylor Sculler sig. C2^v Such a placeles place is Purgatory, Created by the Pope without Gods leaue.

1668 Duchess of Newcastle Grounds Nat. Philos. (ed. 2) xii. xxix. 214 Nor no such thing as a Figureless Body; or such a thing as a Placeless Body: so that Matter, Colour, Figure, and Place, is but one thing, as one and the same Body.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Picture 129 Placeless, as spirits, one soft water-sun throbbing within them, heart at once and eye!

1881 A. C. Fraser Life Berkeley 212 Our placing and dating intelligence must be inadequate to the placeless and dateless Intellect.

1968 Listener 28 Nov. 703/3 Even the restaurants in these places are steeped in placeless motorway fantasy.

1991 Premiere Dec. 43/2 While presenting itself as both timeless and placeless, it evokes a generic American '50s.

1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes 5 With the datelesse, namelesse, placelesse, seallesse Proclamation inclosed.

1878 D. Campbell Rational & True Gospel xv. 80 Dateless, placeless wonders are not very credible.

1994 K. Kelly Out of Control xi. 184 When I connect, I am confused if I can't picture at least what part of the globe I'm connected to. He might not mind being placeless, but I mind.

1828 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. 1 128 After the arrival of the French armies, his secretaryship ceased; and now wifeless and placeless,..‘he felt himself..authorised..to indulge his taste for pilgriming’.

1831 Lincoln Herald 28 Jan. Placeless walked the pensive Whigs.

1864 Sat. Rev. 13 Aug. 220/1 The landless and placeless Irish gentleman.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick vii. 40 The beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.

1995 J. Peck Selva Morale 92 Placelessly, bells unfolded small voices and then great ones, as the girl glided over.

1973 M. McLuhan Let. 3 Jan. (1987) 459 He challenged the idea of the TV icon and the certification of placelessness.

1986 Independent 1 Dec. 23 Agelessness has..become something of a cliché in any analysis of Grant's enduring appeal. Less often acknowledged..was his placelessness.