The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bootlessness
Bootless \Boot"less\, a. [From Boot profit.]
Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or
success.
--Chaucer.
I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster] -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness,
n.
Wiktionary
bootlessness
n. (context obsolete English) The quality of being unavailing or unprofitable.