"letterless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From letter + -less.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1880, John Payne, “Azizeh’s Tomb”, in New Poems, London: Newman & Co, page 98",
          "text": "I passed by a ruined tomb in the midst of a garden-way, Upon whose letterless stone seven blood-red anemones lay.",
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        "Without the presence or use of alphabetical letters."
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          "ref": "1914, Margaret Deland, chapter 5, in The Hands of Esau, New York: Harper & Bros., page 67",
          "text": "The prospect of seeing some one who had just seen Tom was very exciting, but Nina’s happiness was dampened by the fact that just about that time she had three letterless days.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not having received a letter; (of a period of time) during which no letter is received. (of a person)"
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        {
          "text": "a letterless peasant",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "text": "1760, William Law, A Collection of Letters, London: J. Richardson, Letter I, p. 20,\nI join therefore in the public Assemblies, not because of the Purity, or Perfection of that which is done, or to be found there, but because of that which is meant and intended by them: They mean the holy, public Worship of God; they mean the Edification of Christians; they are of great Use to many People; they keep the World from a total Forgetfulness of God; they help the Ignorant and Letterless to such a Knowledge of God, and the Scriptures, as they would not have without them."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Willa Cather, “The Marriage of Phaedra”, in The Troll Garden",
          "text": "The son of a small tobacconist, he had grown up a sign-painter’s apprentice; idle, lawless, and practically letterless until he had drifted into the night classes of the Albert League, where Ghillini sometimes lectured.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Illiterate."
      ],
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        [
          "Illiterate",
          "illiterate"
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          "_dis1": "1 6 93",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "negramoten",
          "sense": "illiterate",
          "word": "неграмотен"
        }
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  "word": "letterless"
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          "ref": "1880, John Payne, “Azizeh’s Tomb”, in New Poems, London: Newman & Co, page 98",
          "text": "I passed by a ruined tomb in the midst of a garden-way, Upon whose letterless stone seven blood-red anemones lay.",
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        "Without the presence or use of alphabetical letters."
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      ],
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          "text": "1760, William Law, A Collection of Letters, London: J. Richardson, Letter I, p. 20,\nI join therefore in the public Assemblies, not because of the Purity, or Perfection of that which is done, or to be found there, but because of that which is meant and intended by them: They mean the holy, public Worship of God; they mean the Edification of Christians; they are of great Use to many People; they keep the World from a total Forgetfulness of God; they help the Ignorant and Letterless to such a Knowledge of God, and the Scriptures, as they would not have without them."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Willa Cather, “The Marriage of Phaedra”, in The Troll Garden",
          "text": "The son of a small tobacconist, he had grown up a sign-painter’s apprentice; idle, lawless, and practically letterless until he had drifted into the night classes of the Albert League, where Ghillini sometimes lectured.",
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "negramoten",
      "sense": "illiterate",
      "word": "неграмотен"
    }
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  "word": "letterless"
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