templelessadj.
/ˈtɛmp(ə)lləs/, U.S. /ˈtɛmpə(l)ləs/ Having no temple, destitute of a temple.
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templelessa1500
untempled1850
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 303 He shuld make vs tempylles [read tempyl-les], And gar it cleyn downe fall.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiv. 221 And yet that the Persians were wholly Temple-lesse will hardly be believed.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. iv. ii. 162 Druidism, passing from its earliest templeless belief into the later corruptions.
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