hireless

English

Etymology

hire + -less

Adjective

hireless (not comparable)

  1. Without recompense, payment or reward.
    • '1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter X:
      "To cry the state of the political atmosphere,"—and so forth, I set off on a tour to the North, from Bristol to Sheffield, for the purpose of procuring customers, preaching by the way in most of the great towns, as an hireless volunteer, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, that not a rag of the woman of Babylon might be seen on me.

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