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English
Etymology
From residue + -less.
Adjective
residueless (comparative more residueless, superlative most residueless)
- Leaving no residue or lasting mark.
1908, Paul Dahlke, Buddhist Essays, pages 309–310:To his pointed question: "Where does the residueless, total annihilation of the four elements take place?" he received the following answer. "Go, O monk, and put your question to the Exalted One. As the Exalted One shall explain it, so believe."
1977, Lászlo Jakucs, Morphogenetics of Karst Regions: Variants of Karst Evolution, page 78:In general, any monomineralic rock deposited from aqueous solution is capable of total, residueless dissolution in water.
2008, Alessandro Ferrara, chapter 1, in The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, page 18:If we assume that, in a philosophical context where the human subject is supposed to be intersubjectively constituted by web of relations that necessarily have to have a culturally local anchoring, principles and laws cannot do the old trick of allowing the residueless subsumption of all particulars, as if culture and social relations of recognition were just a colorful addition to a subject whose making is best accounted for in naturalistic or transcendental terms,
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