a. [f. BOON sb. + -LESS.] Without a boon. (In boonless boon (imitating Gr. ἄδωρον δῶρον) ‘a gift that is no gift.’).
1863. P. S. Worsley, Phaethon, Poems & Transl., 6. Thou hast asked a boonless boon. Ibid., 13. How boonless were the boon, if this were all.
