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From Middle English nameles, equivalent to name + -less. Cognate with Dutch naamloos (“nameless”), German namenlos (“nameless”), Danish navnløs (“nameless”), Swedish namnlös (“nameless”), Icelandic nafnlaus (“nameless, anonymous”).

adjective nameles

  1. not comparable Not having a name. Environmental DNA analysis suggests that the number of species of bacteria that remain nameless to date may well be on the order of many thousands.
  2. not comparable Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured. The culprits shall remain nameless here, as some names have been changed to protect the guilty; just don't let it happen again.
  3. not comparable Unable to be described or expressed. a nameless unease
  4. dated, not comparable Illegitimate. He said that he would cherish her until the grave, and that he would love her nameless son as though he were his own flesh.
  5. not comparable Not well-known; not having made a name for oneself. Nameless and fameless, but tinged with the sadness Rising from organs by seraph hands played.

noun the nameless · nameles

  1. obsolete Vulva. Hérison, m. The female pudendum; ‘the nameless’.

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