wineless
English
Etymology
From Middle English wynelesse; equivalent to wine + -less.
Adjective
wineless (not comparable)
- 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, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter One,
- 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...
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