"emptyhandedness" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "emptyhanded + -ness",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "1962, Bolingbroke society, Drama Survey - Volume 2, page 202",
          "text": "Mr. Basehart offers it again, \"Here, cousin,\" and dances away again, leaving Bolingbroke accused by his own emptyhandedness.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "The state of having nothing in one's hands."
      ],
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        "uncountable"
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        {
          "ref": "1912, T. A. Venkasawmy Row, The Indian Decisions (Old Series): Being a Verbatim Reprint of the Reports of Cases Decided by the Late Suprmem Courts and the Sudder Dewanny Adawluts in India, Volume 3, page 194",
          "text": "Now on account of my emptyhandedness and want of means, I am unable to provide for the law charges and remuneration of attorneys and counsel and such matters and without appointing a protector over me, it is impossible to meet the costs and charges of the suits, and of the attorneys and counsel an my personal expense, and rent of the house which I now occupy, and the wages of servants &c.",
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        "Poverty or lack of possessions and resources."
      ],
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      ],
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        "uncountable"
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    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896, Third Biennial, General Federation of Women's Clubs, page 278",
          "text": "Oh, the beauty and heavenliness of a home where the empty-handed guest is not the less but the more welcome for his emptyhandedness!",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lack of anything to offer"
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        {
          "ref": "1939, Social Work Today - Volumes 7-8",
          "text": "Talk with those here who vainly seek work, who suffer daily the humiliation of emptyhandedness.",
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        "The lack of something one sought to acquire."
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Nathan Miller, The U.S. Navy: A History, Third Edition, page 208",
          "text": "And the clanging call of the general alarm rasped you to battle stations, night and day, from sleep and from meals, always with the same emptyhandedness of failure in the end.",
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        "Failure to accomplish a task or mission."
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        {
          "ref": "1982, Stanley Elkin, George Mills: a novel, page 7",
          "text": "...Mills had first spoken his gibberish of good intention, always careful, though they did not travel in armor, to lean down from their mounts to shake hands in the trendy new symbol of emptyhandedness and unarmedness that they'd picked up on their travels.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Lack of a weapon; the state of being unarmed."
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          "text": "Now on account of my emptyhandedness and want of means, I am unable to provide for the law charges and remuneration of attorneys and counsel and such matters and without appointing a protector over me, it is impossible to meet the costs and charges of the suits, and of the attorneys and counsel an my personal expense, and rent of the house which I now occupy, and the wages of servants &c.",
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      ],
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        "Lack of anything to offer"
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          "text": "Talk with those here who vainly seek work, who suffer daily the humiliation of emptyhandedness.",
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      ],
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        }
      ],
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        "Failure to accomplish a task or mission."
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        }
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        "Lack of a weapon; the state of being unarmed."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "empty-handedness"
    }
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  "word": "emptyhandedness"
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