Meanings
comparative more inutilitarian · superlative most inutilitarian
- useless
Poetry has then its weedage plenteous and pestilent. Yet count not the thousand apparently inutilitarian charms and sweetnesses, as parts of this weedage: a wreath of roses has its own worth no less than a sheaf of corn.
1853, Thomas Toke Lynch, Essays on some of the forms of Literature, page 29
Origin
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