a. [f. AUTHOR + -LESS.]

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  1.  Without admitted author; anonymous.

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1713.  Guardian, No. 133. The false aspersions some authorless tongues have laid upon me.

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1869.  Spectator, 3 July, 797. After 1715 his works were apparently authorless, or issued under fictitious and assumed names.

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  2.  Without originator; uncreated.

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1862.  F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 64. The Sánkhyas … would have it [the Veda] to be authorless.

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  3.  Void of authors or writers.

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1879.  B. Wheatley, Catal. Med. Chirurg. Soc. Libr., Pref. 13. A long interval of authorless years.

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