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mapless

  • a word derived from map.

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A sketchy, mapless framework is not a plan.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022

Last year, he explained to The Paris Review that “Periplum,” his first book, was named after “an ancient form of navigation, a kind of mapless way of moving through space, of reckoning.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

He was a failure, and one day he died.   Across the border of the mapless landHe found himself among a sad-eyed bandOf disappointed souls; they, too, had triedAnd missed their purpose. 

From Poems of Purpose by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

He is the educated Slav of all time; he to a large extent explains mapless Poland, and the political inefficiency of the great empire of Russia.

From Essays on Russian Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

Also my notion of nowhere to be at all—   Pardon, Myrtilla, my lack of restraint— Notion of mapless location is——d. it all—   Anywhere you simultaneous ain't.

From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)