honeyless

English

Etymology

honey +‎ -less

Adjective

honeyless (not comparable)

  1. 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, [Act V, scene i]:
      Cassius. […] for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
      And leave them honeyless.
    • 1917, Mary Webb, chapter 11, in Gone to Earth‎, New York: Dutton, page 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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