portionless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"‘Be assured, if the youth were true, his father who is one of the proudest nobles about the court, would prohibit his union with one so humble and portionless as thou.’"
"‘So my child is portionless,’ resumed the earl, with a suppressed sigh."

Etymology tree Latin portiōder. Old French porcionbor. Middle English porcioun English portion Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English portionless From portion + -less.

more portionless (comparative) most portionless (superlative)

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