proofless
English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]proofless (not comparable)
- Without proof.
- 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
- nor did I content my self with the proofless proposal of my Conjecture
- 1890, Charles King, From the Ranks[1]:
- A sneering smile was the only answer for a moment; then,-- "I shall take great pleasure in confounding my enemies should the matter be brought before a court,--I'm sure if the colonel can stand that sort of thing I can,--but as for defending myself or anybody else from utterly unjust and proofless suspicions, it's quite another thing."