a. [f. BASE sb.1 + -LESS.] Without base or foundation, groundless.

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1610.  Shaks., Temp., IV. i. 151. The baselesse fabricke of this vision.

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1815.  Southey, Roderick, XVII. 181. A baseless faith.

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1876.  Green, Short Hist., v. § 6 (1882), 261. No claim could have been more utterly baseless.

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  b.  in reference to military tactics; cf. BASE sb.1 16.

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1862.  Helps, Organiz. Daily Life, 79. Occasionally, baseless operations have effected great results in war.

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