a. [f. WASTE sb. + -LESS.] Without diminution, unwasting.

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1589.  Greene, Tullies Love, Wks. (Grosart), VII. 196. Thou doest wring water out of the flint, fier forth of ye dry sandes,… so that by wastlesse perswasions for thy friende, I am forst to say [etc.].

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1620.  May, Heir, IV. (1633), G 1 b. Those powers above … That from their wastlesse treasures heape rewards.

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1679.  in Roxb. Ball. (1881), IV. 170. He was become, for England’s good, An endless Mine, a wasteless Flood.

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1868.  A. C. Glyn, trans. Ozanam’s Hist. Civiliz., I. 95. The sun pouring forth a wasteless light.

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1886.  W. F. Warren, Serm., in Hom. Rev., Jan., 50. He started those wasteless fires and forces of the sun.

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