honeyless

English

Etymology

honey +‎ -less

Adjective

honeyless (not comparable)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• holynesse