scapelessadj.1
/ˈskeɪplɪs/ Botany.
Destitute of a scape.
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1828–32 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
scapelessadj.2
/ˈskeɪplɪs/ Not to be escaped from; inevitable.
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the mind > will > necessity > [adjective] > inevitable
uneschewablec1374
unscapablea1382
ineschewable1412
inevitablec1430
intreatable1509
unevitable1539
forcible1574
inextricable1576
unavoidable1577
resistless1590
unshunning1593
unavoided1597
inexorable1600
unpreventablea1601
fatal1605
irrenitible1605
unvoided1612
unescapable1614
shunlessa1616
unshunnablea1616
ineluctable1623
unpreventible1632
undefensablea1642
undeclinable1652
indeclinable1658
ineludible1662
avoidlessa1668
inavoidable1670
infrustrable1677
unhinderable1678
wardless1693
unfrustrable1714
unparryable1770
inescapable1792
inexcludible1817
unproscribable1817
unprecludible1825
undeliverable1843
inevasible1846
scapeless1850
deviceless1851
escapeless1855
unevadable1857
ineliminable1875
inavertible1885
unavertible1897
voidless1908
1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 164 My fate Is fixed and scapeless.
1883 R. Bridges Prometheus 59 The scapeless net spread in thy sight around thee.
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scapelessadj.3
/ˈskeɪplɪs/ In the terminology of G. M. Hopkins: lacking scape, without distinctive and individual quality.
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1874 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 245 Scapeless aimless background of tapestry, a cannon, and so on.
1874 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 248 The feet not inscaped but with a scapeless look they sometimes no doubt have..and veined too, which further breaks their scaping.
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