a. [f. TITLE sb. + -LESS.] Having no title, destitute of a title (in various senses of TITLE sb.); untitled.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Manciple’s T., 119. Right so bitwixe a titlelees tirant And an Outlawe or a theef errant The same I seye ther is no difference.
1607. Shaks., Cor., V. i. 13. He was a kinde of Nothing, Titlelesse, Till he had forg’d himselfe a name a’th’fire Of burning Rome.
1881. Blackw. Mag., May, 619/1. The titleless condition of her father.
1888. Vicary’s Anat., App. ii. 121. In the Cofferer’s (titleless) Account, 79/3, 1 Oct. 1560 to 30 Sept., 1561, Vicary’s Annuity is on the back of leaf 7 from end.
