a. rare. [f. WANT sb.2 + -LESS.] Having no want or lack. Hence Wantlessness.
1586. Warner, Alb. Eng., III. xiv. (1589), 56. The want-les Counties Essex, Kent, Surrie, and wealthie Glayde Of Hertfordshire.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 393. All Winter-long, Thou [the Lambourn stream] never shows’t a drop, Nor send’st a doit of need-less Subsidie, To Cramm the Kennet’s Want-lesse Treasurie, Before her Store be spent, and springs be staid.
1852. Kossuth, in New-York Daily Times, 29 May, 1/1. I endeavored to oppose arguments of progress to the conforms of stagnation, and oppose the requirements of life to the wantlessness of death.
1890. C. Monkhouse, Corn & Poppies, 81. No faith in giving To wantless dead the crumbs that feed the living.
1896. J. A. Hobson, in Contemp. Rev., April, 498. A German thinker has denounced the ‘accursed wantlessness’ of the masses as the great inner obstacle of social progress.
