Emptyhandedness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Emptyhandedness is a noun meaning The state of having nothing in one's hands.
Meaning
The state of having nothing in one's hands.
More Meanings
- Poverty or lack of possessions and resources.
- Lack of anything to offer
- The lack of something one sought to acquire.
- Failure to accomplish a task or mission.
- Lack of a weapon; the state of being unarmed.
Example Sentences
Talk with those here who vainly seek work, who suffer daily the humiliation of emptyhandedness.
Mr. Basehart offers it again, "Here, cousin," and dances away again, leaving Bolingbroke accused by his own emptyhandedness.
Oh, the beauty and heavenliness of a home where the empty-handed guest is not the less but the more welcome for his emptyhandedness!
And the clanging call of the general alarm rasped you to battle stations, night and day, from sleep and from meals, always with the same emptyhandedness of failure in the end.
Word Forms
- empty-handedness
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include empty-handedness, barehandedness, bare-handedness, possessionlessness, moneylessness, wealthlessness.
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