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  • adjective rare Without a dragon or dragons.

Etymologies

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dragon +‎ -less

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Examples

  • With the Altan capital in ruins, even had Orest been dragonless, he would scarcely have been permitted to be an idler.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • "I wouldn't miss that fight if I were dragonless," F'nor declared stoutly.

    DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968

  • But their riders ... all the weyrfolk ... we're shadows, half alive, like dragonless men, part of us gone forever.

    DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968

  • Occasionally a dragonless man remained living, such as Lytol, Ruatha's Warder, but he was half shadow and that indistinct self lived in torment.

    DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968

  • None ever floundered in between to disappear forever, and no beast in his wing sickened, leaving a man in dragonless exile from the Weyr, a part of him numb forever.

    DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968

  • The dragonless summit, the gorse-clad summit, the summit of Winter Hill!

    The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch R. C. Lehmann 1892

  • "Lytol is a dragonless man," F'lar told the girl, "no friend to Fax.

    DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968

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