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  • preposition obsolete Without.

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Examples

  • Withouten wemme of you, thurgh foule or faire, "since it bears you," withouten "even so much as your" herte's "will, in

    Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864

  • Allone, withouten any compaignye... what a devastating line.

    A Short Break Bardiac 2008

  • Allone, withouten any compaignye... what a devastating line.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Bardiac 2008

  • In that contree been white hennes withouten fetheres: but thei beren white wolle, as scheep don here.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And whan thei chesen another prelate, zif he be a gode man and worthi to be prelate, his lampe schal lighte, with the grace of God, withouten touchinge of ony man.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And there is the vesselle of ston, as it were of marbelle, that men clepen enydros, that evermore droppeth watre, and fillethe himself everiche zeer, til that it go over above, withouten that that men take fro withinne.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • But the ordynance, ne the expenses in mete and drynk, ne the honestee ne the clennesse, is not so arrayed there, as it is here: for alle the comouns there eten withouten clothe upon here knees; and thei eten alle maner of flessche, and litylle of bred.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And alle tho ben at his wages: and thei ben alle weys at him, withouten the folke of his contree, that is withouten nombre.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And the comoun peple, that wolde putte here bodyes and here catelle, for to conquere oure heritage, thei may not don it withouten the lordes.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And zit there is at Alizandre a faire chirche, alle white withouten peynture: and so ben alle the othere chirches, that weren of the Cristene men, alle white with inne.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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