a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] Without fame or renown; undistinguished.

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1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. Ded. to A. Bacon, 6. My fame-lesse Name doom’d to oblivion.

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1646.  G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, I. 47.

        When I, vnto the fameles Devia, now
Vtter my song.

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1796.  Southey, Joan of Arc, X. 304. Nor few, nor fameless, were the English chiefs.

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1848.  Unknown Heroes, in Tait’s Mag., XV. 105.

        Earth’s unknown heroes silently the world’s rough tempests brave,
And, gliding noteless o’er life’s waste, sink to a fameless grave.

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  Hence Famelessly adv.

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1847.  in Craig.

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