FRUSTRANEOUS ADJ. leading to frustration, vain, useless, ineffectual, unprofitable - a1643 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin type frustraneus (from frustra [in vain]) + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1643 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The first time he builds seven Altars, and sacrificeth on them, and the second time seven, and the third time seven with more opportunity: and though he saw that every time it was like a piece charged against another, that recoyled upon himselfe, though hee saw how frustranious, and empty all his intendments, and purposes were, yet for all that he goes on in the hardnes of his heart..." From: Judgement and Mercy, Or, The Plague of Frogges Inflicted, Removed. Delivered in Nine Sermons - Josias Shute
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