Christian-nameless

From Christian name +‎ -less.

Christian-nameless (not comparable)

1. (rare) Without a Christian name.

   Coordinate terms: first-nameless, given-nameless, last-nameless, middle-nameless, surnameless

   • 1895 January 19, Frederick Lees, “Prize Story. A Human Enigma.”, in The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, number 6,809, Newcastle upon Tyne, →OCLC, page 8, column 4:

     To me, once, inspecting a well-chosen shelf of medical works in several languages, an advanced surgeon’s library in themselves—possibly purchased en bloc, I thought, from some dead professor’s widow—he had remarked pleasantly, as a fitting pleasantry for the addressee, that “John’s is my nom du^[sic] guerre,—in the war of life, you know, Doctor.” Enough, however, to show that as Christian-nameless John’s he was known to all in Beedley, aye to the very end, saving myself.

   • 1915, Geoffrey Faber, “To ——”, in Interflow: Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 24:

     I’m caught at last! I can’t hold out any longer! / When first I saw you, I knew what it would be. / For fifteen months I kept my head. But see, / I’m on my knees to you. You are the stronger. / For all your slenderness of limb and feature / You’ve mastered me—you Christian-nameless creature!

   • 1988, Meg Twycross, “Felsted of London: […]”, in Sarah Carpenter, Pamela King, editors, The Materials of Early Theatre: […] (Variorum Collected Studies), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 6 December 2017 (indicated as 2018), →ISBN, part IV (Processions and the wider culture):

     At Christmas 1548/9, ‘ffelsteade’, Christian-nameless as ever, made ‘ix globes with all thinges necessarie ffor theyr makyng at xvj^d the pece’ for the Court Revels, for which he was paid 12s.

   • 1991 March, “Upgrade It Yourself (Part Three)”, in Mark Higham, editor, ST Format, number 20, Bath, Avon: Future Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130, column 1:

     The mysteriously Christian-nameless PJ Ellis from Swindon has a question and another neat little project for improving your ST.