printless

[ print-lis ]

adjective

1. making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.

Word History and Origins

Origin of printless¹

First recorded in 1600–10; print + -less

Example Sentences

In 2011, the team homed in on one gene, SMARCAD1, which was mutated in the nine printless family members, identifying it as the cause of the rare disease.

From BBC

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From US News

And in that garden, black and white, Creep whispers through the grass all night; And spectral dance, before the dawn, A hundred Vicars down the lawn; Curates, long dust, will come and go On lissom, clerical, printless toe; And oft between the boughs is seen The sly shade of a Rural Dean...

From Project Gutenberg

And thus do—       “printless footsteps fall By the spots they loved before.”

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed, the graphic pictures he has handed down to us of “Elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot, Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demy-puppets that By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make Whereof the ewe not bites,” etc., show how intimately he was acquainted with the history of these little people, and what a complete knowledge he possessed of the superstitious fancies which had clustered round them.

From Project Gutenberg