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plightless
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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English
Etymology
From Middle English plightles, plyȝtles, equivalent to plight + -less.
Adjective
plightless (comparative more plightless, superlative most plightless)
- Devoid of plight
- 2013, Martin Heidegger, The Event, page 85:
- Finally arrives the prospect of storing up a “potentiality” of powers which can be sufficient, in the most plightless moment of the age of the complete lack of a sense of plight, to deliver up the globe, along with its atmosphere, to an explosive charge.
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