schoollessadj.
/ˈskuːlləs/, U.S. /ˈsku(l)ləs/ Of a person: without schooling or training; lacking a formal education. Also in later use (of a person, esp. a child): not attending a school; having no school available; (of a place) lacking a school or schools.rare before mid 19th cent.
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society > education > learning > [adjective] > going to school > not
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a1400 in B. J. Whiting & H. W. Whiting Prov., Sentences, & Proverbial Phrases (1968) 317 (MED) Strongman skoleles, Povereman loveles, hem were betere be lyfles.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Little Bartas in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 786 [The Holy Spirit enables] Som (School-less Scholars; Learned, study-less) To vnderstand and speak all Languages.
1830 Collegian May 186 The schoolless vagrant of the streets.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 151 Our schoolless art..has wandered into strange and lower lands.
1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 101 The 21,025 schoolless children of Glasgow.
1915 N.Y. Times Curr. Hist. 2 348/2 Educated solely by his own efforts on stray newspapers and books which fell in his way in his schoolless village.
1961 Ebony Mar. 86/2 How to get textbooks to the schoolless colored kids in Prince Edward County.
1999 R. T. Gill Posterity Lost i. ii. 42 The risks of schoolless young men and young women being out of work.
2003 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 18 Aug. 4 Should a Palestinian state come into existence, it will be..penniless, waterless, schoolless, foodless and useless.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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