bootlessness

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bootless \Boot"less\, a. [From {Boot} profit.]
   Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or
   success. --Chaucer.
   [1913 Webster]

         I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Boot"less*ly}, adv. -- {Boot"less*ness},
   n.
   [1913 Webster]