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Manless

Manless \Man"less\, a.

  1. Destitute of men.
    --Bakon.

  2. Unmanly; inhuman. [Obs.]
    --Chapman.

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manless

a. Without a man or men.

Usage examples of "manless".

We have too many manless families for that now, and there is room in plenty here.

It was fierce and deadly and in the end the Outsiders, as those with the Z chromosome came to be called, were driven from this land, angry and manless, doomed to die away at last since none were born to replace them.

I said, and just as I did, my grandmother came into the hall, so Julia was forced to stay in the manless land of bunk beds with us.

Poor manless, withered, end of the road, cutter up of worms, Miss Sheldon-Smythe.

But all round their country the land is desolate and manless, peopled only by game, for the reason that they will suffer none to dwell there.

Sergeant Hartke in 1631, Dagmar had survived five manless years in the train of various Protestant armies, fairly intact, by not missing a thing.

Then, quite suddenly, one day I stepped out of the peace of manless primality into the presence of man--and peace was gone.

This is when I once more realized that Allison/Cecilia is basically me - an older version of me, but a woman marooned, manless and geographically remote, contemplating a life of iffy labor, a few thousand more microwaveable meals and then a coffin.

It was fierce and deadly and in the end the Outsiders, as those with the Z chromosome came to be called, were driven from this land, angry and manless, doomed to die away at last since none were born to replace them.