honeyless

English

Etymology

honey + -less

Adjective

honeyless (not comparable)

  1. Without honey.
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act V, Scene 1,
      But 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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