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dragonless en · ADJ

Etymology

From dragon + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Without a dragon or dragons.
    • His famous "dragon," so much in request in the neighbouring and dragonless parishes during the period of medieval sentiment, till it appears in a cold-blooded "inventory" as "made of hoopis and coveryd wyth canvass," is as life-like an illustration as could well be given of the disillusionizing processes of the Reformation. 1883, “Local Public Records”, in The Saturday Review, page 176:
    • As a dragonless man, he was held in a certain respect by the other men. 2002, Anne McCaffrey, The Renegades of Pern, page 79: