a. [f. TAX sb.1 + -LESS.) Free from taxes or taxation; untaxed.

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1615.  Sylvester, Job Triumphant, III. 555. If Tithe-lesse, Taxe-lesse, Wage-lesse, Right-lesse, I Have eat the Crop, or caused the Owners dye.

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1845.  Ld. Campbell, Chancellors (1857), IV. lxxviii. 61. They depicted … the happy tranquil, taxless times which the more aged might still remember.

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1909.  Daily Chron., 3 Sept., 4/4. Compelled to fly the Channel, and seek some taxless shore.

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  Hence Taxlessly adv., without taxation.

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1894.  J. S. Morton, in Forum (U.S.), June, 389. The most efficacious remedy … is, to give the farmers of the United States the right to taxlessly buy in the markets of all the civilized world wherein they are compelled to sell.

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