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English
Etymology
From Middle English causelees, causeles; equivalent to cause + -less.
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causeless (comparative more causeless, superlative most causeless)
- Having no obvious cause; fortuitous or inexplicable.
- Synonyms: by accident, incidental, random; see also Thesaurus:accidental
- Groundless or unreasonable.
1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Pilgrimes Arrivall at Constantinople, Entertainment, and Departure”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge , →OCLC, book I, pages 22–23:[H]e […] by his overcarefulneſſe and cauſeleſſe ſuſpicion, deprived himſelf of this benefit, and implunged himſelf in much juſt hatred for his unjuſt dealing and treachery.
1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. , 2nd edition, London: J M for H Herringman, , published 1667, →OCLC, Act III, page 36:Alas my fears are cauſless, and ungrounded, / Fantaſtick dreams, and melancholick fumes / Of crazy ſtomacks, and diſtempered brains: / Has this convinc'd you?
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