printless

American  

[print-lis] / ˈprɪnt lɪs /

adjective

1. making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.

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Etymology

Origin of printless

First recorded in 1600–10; print + -less

Example Sentences

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printless

In 2011, the team homed in on one gene, SMARCAD1, which was mutated in the nine printless family members, identifying it as the cause of the rare disease.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2020

The stamp of distinction rests on its printless waves.

From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap

Her waist was slender; and as she ran, she outstripped the winds, and her footsteps were printless on the tender herb.

From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by William Godwin

Now slow, now swifter treading Their paces timed and true, An instant poised, then threading A maze of printless clue, The music smoothly wedding To motions ever new.

From Miscellany of Poetry 1919 by W. Kean Seymour

In a few moments we shall be of the elves       'That on the sand with printless foot   Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him   When he comes back.'

From Suburban Sketches by William Dean Howells