poundless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pound +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

poundless (not comparable)

  1. Without pounds (currency).
    • 1886, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Eliot Norton, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, volume 1, page 177:
      I would only the Book were an Epic, a Dante, or undying thing, that New England might boast in after times of this feat of hers; and put stupid, poundless, and penniless Old England to the blush about it!
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