"backboneless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From backbone + -less.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "backboned"
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          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
          "text": "Once, like a drunken man, I lurched forward, and fell upon my knees. Such was my backboneless state that for some seconds I remained where I was, half disposed to let things slide, accept the good the gods had sent me, and make a night of it just there.",
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        "Without a backbone; invertebrate."
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        "(literally) Without a backbone; invertebrate."
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        "not-comparable"
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        "Cowardly, spineless."
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        "(figuratively) Cowardly, spineless."
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        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "backboneless"
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  "etymology_text": "From backbone + -less.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "Once, like a drunken man, I lurched forward, and fell upon my knees. Such was my backboneless state that for some seconds I remained where I was, half disposed to let things slide, accept the good the gods had sent me, and make a night of it just there.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Without a backbone; invertebrate."
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        "(literally) Without a backbone; invertebrate."
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        "Cowardly, spineless."
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        "(figuratively) Cowardly, spineless."
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