a. [f. WOMAN sb. + -LESS.] Without a woman or women; having or containing no women.

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1833.  Arkansas Advocate, 18 Sept., 4/3.

        And after months of womanless ennui,
Thinking each eye as bright as adamant.

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1846.  in Worcester.

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1859.  Athenæum, 10 Dec., 771/2. It is a strange arena, the womanless world of cassocks.

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1872.  M. Collins, P’cess Clarice, I. xvi. 254. Arthur Swingate found himself womanless.

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1912.  Engl. Rev., June, 494. Mr. Macdonald Hastings has suddenly burst into the public eye with a womanless play called The New Sin.

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