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U'SELESS, a. Having no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; as a useless garment; useless pity.

1913 Definition
Useless (useless)
a.
Use"less
  1. Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.

    Not to sit idle with so great a gift
    Useless, and thence ridiculous.     Milton.

    Syn. -- Fruitless; ineffectual. -- Useless, Fruitless, Ineffectual. We speak of an attempt, effort, etc., as being useless when there are in it inherent difficulties which forbid the hope of success, as fruitless when it fails, not from any such difficulties, but from some unexpected hindrance arising to frustrate it; as, the design was rendered fruitless by the death of its projector. Ineffectual nearly resembles fruitless, but implies a failure of a less hopeless character; as, after several ineffectual efforts, I at last succeeded.

    Useless are all words
    Till you have writ "performance" with your swords.
    The other is for waiving.     Beau. *** Fl.

    Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation to this controversy, as being either needless or fruitless. Waterland.

    Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many. Bp. Stillingfleet.

    -- Use"less*ly, adv. -- Use"less*ness, n.

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Noah Says...
An attempt to conduct the affairs of a free government with wisdom and impartiality, and to preserve the just rights of all classes of citizens, without the guidance of Divine precepts, will certainly end in disappointment. God is the supreme moral Governor of the world He has made, and as He Himself governs with perfect rectitude, He requires His rational creatures to govern themselves in like manner. If men will not submit to be controlled by His laws, He will punish them by the evils resulting from their own disobedience.…
 Letter to David McClure :: October 25, 1837 




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