Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from ransom; without the payment of ransom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Incapable of being
ransomed ; without ransom.
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Examples
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They evaporated at checkpoints and into ransomless kidnappings, their fates unknown and yet a terrible certainty to this day.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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They evaporated at checkpoints and into ransomless kidnappings, their fates unknown and yet a terrible certainty to this day.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Both in manner and in matter these last two lines are pure Shakespeare, and Shakespeare speaks to us, too, when Prince Henry gives up Douglas to his pleasure “ransomless and free.”
The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909
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Both in manner and in matter these last two lines are pure Shakespeare, and Shakespeare speaks to us, too, when Prince Henry gives up Douglas to his pleasure "ransomless and free."
The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893
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I propose to show you that sometimes God suddenly removes from us our gospel opportunities, and that, when He has done so, our case is ransomless.
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Need I say that Aymer, under a flag of truce, escorted her ransomless, her veil never raised from her face, to the tent of the Saracen king?
The Last of the Barons — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Need I say that Aymer, under a flag of truce, escorted her ransomless, her veil never raised from her face, to the tent of the Saracen king?
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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