wineless

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English wynelesse; equivalent to wine +‎ -less.

Adjective

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wineless (not comparable)

  1. Without wine.
    • 1982, Brojendra Nath Banerjee, Religious conversions in India:
      Jesus meets the felt needs of the poor such as turning water into wine as a service to the wineless...
    • 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
      After the stolidity of my childhood—the affluent Midwest of new Cadillacs, Negro maids, and wineless six-o’clock dinners []
    • 2008, Phillip Harding, The story of Athens: the fragments of the local chronicles of Attika:
      Polemon in his work Against Timaios says that there are wineless sacrifices...