Usage examples:
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These
were,
as
we
have
said,
Madelon's
happiest
times,
and,
indeed,
they
hardly
repaid
the
child
for
long
days
of
weariness
and
despondency,
for
hours
of
heart-
sick
longing
for
she
knew
not
what,
of
objectless
hoping,
of
that
saddest
form
of
home-
sickness,
that
knows
of
no
home
for
which
to
pine.
Eleanor Frances Poynter in "My Little Lady".
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It
was
striking
a
quarter
to
eight,
and
her
morning
devotions
would
have
been
objectless
and
thrown
away
had
she
not
met
her
hero
on
his
way
to
school.
Hermann Sudermann in "The Song of Songs".
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And
the
crime
is
so
entirely
objectless
William Minto in "Daniel Defoe".
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There
has
never
been
a
time
when
there
was
more
rabid,
objectless
and
unscrupulous
display
of
partisanship.
Theodore Roosevelt in "Thomas Hart Benton".