attemptless
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]attemptless (not comparable)
- Not making or not having made an attempt.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:
- Why then Caſanes ſhall we wiſh for ought
The world affoords in greateſt noueltie,
And reſt attemptleſſe faint and deſtitute?