hearingless
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hearingless (not comparable)
- Unable to hear; deaf.
- 2010, Patricia East, Wherever Snow Falls, page 1:
- With each sudden pierce of lightning, the girl imagined she was hanging from the eaves as some sightless, hearingless, throatless, stony gargoyle -- a lifeless condition that would offer safety.
- Of a legislative or court proceeding, without conducting a hearing.
- 1983, The Maritime Lawyer, volume 8, page 246:
- The Judge held that a hearingless attachment based upon a "hearsay complaint and conclusory affidavit without any judicial inquiry" violates procedural due process.