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nimbless

nimbless noun: nimbleness.

Noun

nimbless (countable and uncountable, plural nimblesses)

  1. (obsolete) Nimbleness.
    • Seemed those little Angels did uphold / The cloth of state, and on their purpled wings / Did beare the pendants, through their nimblesse bold […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • He could his weapon shift from side to syde, / From hand to hand, and with such nimblesse sly1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of nimbless

pluralnimblesses

Questions about nimbless

What does nimbless mean?
Nimbless means nimbleness.
What part of speech is nimbless?
Nimbless is a noun.
What is the plural of nimbless?
The plural of nimbless is nimblesses.

Words near nimbless in the dictionary

  1. nimbleness
  2. nimblenesses
  3. nimbler
  4. nimbles
  5. nimblesome
  6. nimbless
  7. nimblesses
  8. nimblest
  9. nimblewill
  10. nimbling
  11. nimbly

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