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remitless

remitless adjective: without remit or letup.

Adjective

remitless (not comparable)

  1. Without remit or letup.
    • Who, in spite of feebleness of frame, foregoes sleep, and patiently endures a course of remitless watchings of incredible length ?1855, Ezra Sampson, The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Man, page 73
    • "Every way considered," he confided to a friend, "there are customs and habits so interwoven with the very fibers of things as in some respects to be almost hopelessly remitless."1974, Ian M. G. Quimby, Polly Anne Earl, Technological Innovation and the Decorative Arts

Origin of remitless

From remit + -less.

Questions about remitless

What does remitless mean?
Remitless means without remit or letup.
What part of speech is remitless?
Remitless is an adjective.

Words near remitless in the dictionary

  1. remit
  2. remitigate
  3. remitigated
  4. remitigates
  5. remitigating
  6. remitless
  7. remitment
  8. remitments
  9. remits
  10. remittable
  11. remittal

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