Definition of "dateless"

Poor soul, she's gone dateless, I think, with care, and watching, and overmuch trouble; and who can wonder?

1848, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton, page 98

and he were put in York prison and tried and hung – hung! Charley! – kind father was hung on a gallows and mother lost sense and grew silly in grief and we were like to be turned on t' wide world and poor mother dateless

1863, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers‎, page 135

An' they geet howd on her, and carried her into Sally Grimshaw's, an' laid her upo' th' couch cheer, as dateless as a stone !

1881, Edwin Waugh, “The Dead Man's Dinner”, in Tufts of heather, page 307

Into the court you'd swanned, you dateless little pillock, if not wholly confident of winning, surely careless of losing.

1997, Peter O'Toole, Loitering with Intent: The Apprentice‎, page 281

You dateless fool, you stupid ass, clamped to / This crag for all eternity

1976, Fred Beake, Legends from Mammon‎, page 8

"You dateless article," stormed his father, leaving Bennett to realise in his laconic way that he was, and probably always would be, a disappointment to Dad.

2001 August 4, Lynne Walker, “Classical: Musical portrait of the artist as a young man”, in The Independent‎

The other day was dateless, even for my dateless life; for I had forgotten time and had no notion of anything anywhere, when in a small French town I strolled into a cafe noisy with French talk.

1936, G. K. Chesterton, The Autobiography

They were good friends, completely at ease with each other, and when they both ended up dateless on a Friday night, as they often did, they usually ended up eating pizza and watching scary movies together.

2015, Cathryn Fox, Love Lessons

the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity

1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916

Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, / For precious friends hid in death's dateless night

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 30”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley