honeyless
English
Etymology
honey + -less
Adjective
honeyless (not comparable)
- Without honey.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- Cassius. […] 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,
- 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.
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Anagrams
- holynesse