ravenless
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[edit]ravenless (not comparable)
- Without a raven.
- 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
- After this mournful deprivation, I was, for a long time, ravenless.
- 2006, Hugh Cook, The Succubus and Other Stories, page 579:
- 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.