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Webster 1913 Edition


Clerkless

Clerk′less

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Adj.
Unlearned.
[Obs.]
E. Waterhouse.

Definition 2024


clerkless

clerkless

English

Adjective

clerkless (not comparable)

  1. Without clerks.
    • 1940, John Thomas Flynn, Country Squire in the White House (page 32)
      Whatever the cause of the failure, the clerkless store did not materialize.
  2. (obsolete) uneducated
    • E. Waterhouse
      Like the Turk, whose military janisaries and bashaws rule all in their clerkless and cruel way.