Meanings
- not comparableWithout a request.
I will not suggest that you pray a requestless prayer right now. Today may be when you have some of your greatest needs. But try it sometime, to pray only praise and thanksgiving.
1978, Raymond H. Woolsey, “August 4: The Prayer of Thanksgiving”, in Joy in the Morning, Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2242 more examples
The only time there is no incoming request is when the application is first called. Thus, the app logic shunts all “requestless” transactions to the print_form function, which prints the application’s first page—its welcome page.
2005, Craig D. Knuckles, David S. Yuen, “Hidden Form Elements for Application Logic and State”, in Web Applications: Concepts & Real World Design, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, chapter 7 (Maintaining State in Web Applications), page 283She had no requests at all. At last she’d attained such a state. Requests led to anguish, a correlation anybody would recognize. Best to do away with them altogether. But Pasha persisted. There’s absolutely nothing in particular you want to see? Was this a test? Was the requestless existence she considered an accomplishment actually a failure?
2014, Yelena Akhtiorskaya, chapter 12, in Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, part 2 (2008), page 233
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