Definitions

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  • adjective Without a navy.

Etymologies

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navy +‎ -less

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Examples

  • This spirit might demand Canada from a defeated, navyless England, and then our dream of peace on the north would be at an end.

    Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901

  • 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

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