clanlessness

English

Etymology

From clanless +‎ -ness. Piecewise doublet of plantlessness.

Noun

clanlessness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being clanless.
    • 2004, Michael Hanne, Creativity in exile, page 23:
      To be disowned publicly is to be cut off from this, to be placed in a limbo of homelessness, clanlessness, to become nothing.
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