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bribeless

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English

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Etymology

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From bribe +‎ -less.

Adjective

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bribeless (not comparable)

  1. Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes.
    • c. 1603?, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh's Pilgrimage
      From thence to heaven's bribeless hall.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bribeless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)