a. [f. CHAIN sb. + -LESS.] Without chain or chains; unchained. poetic.

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1782.  G. Stuart, Crit. Obs. conc. Scottish Historians, 4. A course of chainless events that hang merely on the sword.

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1816.  Byron, Sonn. Chillon. Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!

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1850.  Blackie, Æschylus, I. 213. Free and chainless, Wild and reinless.

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