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