honeyless
English
Etymology
Adjective
honeyless (not comparable)
- Without honey.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
- But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
- And leave them honeyless.
- 1917, Mary Webb, Gone to Earth, New York: Dutton, Chapter 11, p. 99,[2]
- They might have been, in the all-permeating glory on their hill terrace, with the sapphire-circled plain around—they might have been the two youngest citizens of Paradise, circled in for ever from bleak honeyless winter, bleak honeyless hearts.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act V, Scene 1,[1]