verblessadj.
/ˈvəːbləs/, U.S. /ˈvərbləs/ Having no verb; without a verb or verbs.
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a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 75 What is called a fluent man,..in whose discourse are no verbless nominative cases.
1858 J. Robertson Poems 80 The nounless, verbless tongue.
1908 Daily Chron. 27 Jan. 4/7 After searching through a solid page of verbless matter.
1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 June 406/1 A style peppered with staccato verbless stage directions.
2011 Vigiliae Christianae 65 213 The words qui iustior, duly surrounded by commas, would be an example of the verbless relative clause favoured by Vergil.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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