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pass +‎ -less

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passless (not comparable)

  1. Offering no way to pass; impassable.
    • 1656, Abraham Cowley, The Plagues of Egypt:
      Behold what passless rocks on either hand
  2. Without a pass (authorization document).
    • 1987, Michael Dingake, My Fight Against Apartheid, page 57:
      Demonstrators were instructed to leave their passes at their homes and present themselves passless at police stations.