a. rare. [f. WEALTH + -LESS.] Without wealth, having no money. In quot. 1605 absol.

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1605.  A. Warren, Poor Man’s Pass., B 2 b. In vaine the wealthlesse doe their wants repeat.

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1799.  Campbell, Pleas. Hope, II. 42. Barr’d from delight by Fate’s untimely hand, By wealthless lot, or pitiless command.

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1886.  A. Weir, Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889), 220. Wealthless maidens … cut off their … locks in order to get a mite for the national cause.

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