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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

rationless en · ADJ

Etymology

From ration + -less. Piecewise doublet of ratioless and reasonless.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without rations.
    • The wagons stood out in the hot sun until the mush fermented and soured, and had to be thrown away, while we went rationless to bed, and rose the next day with more than usually empty stomachs[…] 1879, John McElroy, Andersonville: