a. [f. CHARACTER sb. + -LESS.] Without a character, in various senses; esp. a. without distinctive feature; b. without distinctive qualities of mind, without individuality; c. without (any testimony to) personal character.

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1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., III. ii. 195. Mightie States characterlesse are grated To dustie nothing.

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1830.  Coleridge, Table-t., 12 May. Shakspeare’s poetry is characterless … it does not reflect the individual Shakspeare.

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1864.  F. W. Robinson, Mattie, II. 78. Who went away characterless in a world ever ready to believe the worst.

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1885.  M. Pattison, Mem., i. 49. Surely no boy ever reached eighteen so … characterless as I was!

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  Hence Characterlessness.

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1833.  Coleridge, Table-t., 16 Feb. Re-introducing the characterlessness of the Greek tragedy with a chorus.

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1884.  Seeley, in Contemp. Rev., Nov., 655. A sort of cosmopolitan characterlessness marked the nation.

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