a. [f. CHRIST + -LESS.] Without Christ or his spirit.

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1652.  Warren, Unbelievers (1654), 5. They were a Christlesse people.

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1683.  T. H., Knock at Door of Christless Ones, 7. What, Christless, and ready to dye? that’s impossible.

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1816.  Q. Rev., XVI. 536. He dreaded a Christless Christianity.

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1886.  Pall Mall Gaz., 10 June, 5/1. The Christless Christian is a phenomenon but too familiar to all.

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  Hence Christlessness, disregard of Christ and his teachings.

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1879.  Washington Standard, 18 Jan., 5/2. Answer some of the remarkable things that have been said about the Christlessness of his creed.

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1884.  W. H. Ward, in Lanier’s Poems, Introd. 17. The tyranny and Christlessness of war oppressed him.

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