wineless

English

Etymology

From Middle English wynelesse; equivalent to wine +‎ -less.

Adjective

wineless (not comparable)

1. Without wine.
   • 1982, Brojendra Nath Banerjee, Religious conversions in India:

     Jesus meets the felt needs of the poor such as turning water into wine as a service to the wineless...

   • 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

     After the stolidity of my childhood—the affluent Midwest of new Cadillacs, Negro maids, and wineless six-o’clock dinners […]

   • 2008, Phillip Harding, The story of Athens: the fragments of the local chronicles of Attika:

     Polemon in his work Against Timaios says that there are wineless sacrifices...