bootlessness

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bootlessness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bootless \Boot"less\, a. [From Boot profit.]
     Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or
     success. --Chaucer.
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           I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster] -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness,
     n.
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