Meanings
comparative more newless · superlative most newless
- rareNot containing anything new; lacking news or novelty.
Each of these newless bonds binds friend to friend With strength no selfish purpose can secure.
1887, The Popular Poets and Poetry of Ireland3 more examples
Dearest Marion — I wrote you two letters yesterday and if I consulted your pleasure would not trouble you by reading a dull and newless letter today, but I cannot forego my "daily food" of Correspondence of Thomas Cobb.
1907, Colyer Meriwether, Publications of the Southern History Association - Volume 11, page 237Toward the end of August, while the long, hot, "newless” summer was still going strong, Carter embarked on the Mississippi riverboat, the “Delta Queen," for what can only be described as a good-old-fashioned, week-long, whistle-stopping campaign trip.
1978, Freedom of Information Center Report - Issues 383-449, page P-65A prayer […] to know what to really pray to, to be certain by feeling with and without closed eyes of a newless experience […]
1996, Sonja Sekula, Roger Perret, Im Zeichen der Frage, im Zeichen der Antwort, →ISBN, page 134 - not comparablecomputingNot containing or using an operator new.
This is an example of newless instantiation.
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