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ravenless en · ADJ

Etymology

From raven + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a raven.
    • After this mournful deprivation, I was, for a long time, ravenless. 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
    • Were there still wild ravens flying about England looking for corpses to peck at? June, who had spent most of her life living in the ravenless environs of Clapham, quite frankly had no idea. 2006, Hugh Cook, The Succubus and Other Stories, page 579: