a. rare. [f. WORLD sb. + -LESS.]
1. Not having a world to live in.
1826. ? Lamb, in Wks. (1909), II. 824. Can the houseless have a claim above the worldless?
2. Not containing a world or worlds.
1848. Bailey, Festus (ed. 3), 222. I have seen him seize upon an orb, And cast it careless into worldless space.
1856. Aird, Tragic Poem of Wold, I. i. The timeless, worldless, infinite abyss.
3. Free from the world, unworldly.
1864. Tennyson, Aylmer’s F., 471. He pluck’d her dagger forth From where his worldless heart had kept it warm.
