Definitions

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  • adjective Without an army.

Etymologies

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army +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Against your army, leaderless, I would myself march out at the head of my two-score men without a tremor at my heart; before that leader, alone and armyless, I bow my head with something more akin to fear than

    The Strong Arm Robert Barr 1881

  • Mississippi, you remember, repudiated a large foreign debt some years ago; if she became an independent nation, her creditors would influence their government to demand payment, which could not be refused by the weak, defenseless, navyless, armyless, moneyless, repudiating republic of

    Tupelo John Hill 1862

  • When you consider how little money was put into this effort by Randall's organization, maybe it should have been an armyless leader.

    Pam's House Blend - Front Page 2009

  • When you consider how little money was put into this effort by Randall's organization, maybe it should have been an armyless leader.

    Pam's House Blend - Front Page 2009

  • Lots of catholics act using the Church’s values, and have acted differently than the Popes see Schindler who was in a position to do something that the armyless Pope Pius was not.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Paranoid Conservatives”: 2009

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