Meanings
- not comparableWithout wine.
Polemon in his work Against Timaios says that there are wineless sacrifices...
2008, Phillip Harding, The story of Athens: the fragments of the local chronicles of Attika2 more examples
Jesus meets the felt needs of the poor such as turning water into wine as a service to the wineless...
1982, Brojendra Nath Banerjee, Religious conversions in IndiaAfter the stolidity of my childhood—the affluent Midwest of new Cadillacs, Negro maids, and wineless six-o’clock dinners […]
1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle Englishwynelesse
- Englishwineless
From Middle English wynelesse; equivalent to wine + -less.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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