guide
verb (used with object)
to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person.
guideless
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a word derived from
guide.
Example Sentences
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These should have been your thoughts, when, parting hence, You trusted to your guideless innocence.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
It is not cheery, but dreary, to be left in pathlessness, blanketless, guideless, and with breadths of lake and mountain and Nature, shaggy and bearish, between man and man.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
The door closed behind him with a venomous snap and we were left alone in the street, guideless and dogless.
From Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman by Ian Hay
Elsewhere the host was in retreat; We were a guideless lost brigade.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
His guideless youth, if thy experienced age Mislead fallacious into idle rage, Vengeance deserved thy malice shall repress.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
