a. rare. Also 7 examplesse. [f. EXAMPLE sb. + -LESS.] Without an example or precedent; unexampled.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, III. xii. (1632), 587. What is become of that … wonderfull examplelesse example…?

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1603.  B. Jonson, Sejanus, II. iv. (1605), E iij.

        At so examplêsse [sic], and vn-blam’d a life,
As that of the renown’d Germanicus.

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1841.  Morning Post, 4 June, 6/5. Leaving them to contend, unaided, uncommanded, exampleless, with such a fearful force.

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