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ravenless

adj

Etymology

From raven + -less.

  1. derived from *ḱrep-✻ — “to crackle; to rattle”
  2. inherited from *hrabnaz✻ — “raven”
  3. inherited from *hrabn✻ — “raven”
  4. inherited from hræfn — “raven”
  5. inherited from raven
  6. suffixed as ravenless — “raven + less”

Definitions

  1. Without a raven.

    • After this mournful deprivation, I was, for a long time, ravenless.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA