a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] Devoid of knowledge, ignorant.

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1856.  R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. VI. v. 196. He will … bid you be knowledgeless, desireless, motionless.

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1900.  F. W. Bullen, With Christ at Sea, iv. 101. So helpless, so utterly knowledgeless, possessing nothing but the consciousness of Life just begun is the new-born Christian.

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