bootless
adj 2
Collocations
3VERB + BOOTLESS
sent
BOOTLESS + NOUN
errand, prayers
PREP.
on, on, with
Definitions
adj
1
Without boots.
adj
1
Profitless; pointless; unavailing.
I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
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I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
Wiktionary02
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
Wiktionary03
APRIL FOOL, Any one imposed on, or sent on a bootless errand on the first of April, on which day it is the custom among the lower people, children, and servants, by dropping empty papers carefully dou
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