spoilless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

spoil +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

spoilless (not comparable)

  1. Without spoils or plunder.
    • 1892, Rev. Herbert Henry Gowen, The Paradise of the Pacific, page 129:
      Now and then a gaudy peacock would run from his shelter in the lauhala trees, but no wild boars came out, so we returned from our raid bloodless and spoilless.
    • 2021, Renaud Gagné, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, page 166:
      The absence of Kallisto and the spoilless return from the hunt go hand-in-hand, and they are elegantly combined with the return of Apollo to Leto.