a. Obs. [f. children, pl. of CHILD + -LESS.] Without children; = CHILDLESS.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (1865), I. 183. [Þey] dradde also þat longe abidynge from home in werre … schulde make hem childrenlese.

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1566.  Drant, Horace’s Sat., V. K iij. If thoue be ryche, and chyldrenles.

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