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Etymology

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From dragon +‎ -less.

Adjective

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dragonless (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Without a dragon or dragons.
    • 1883, "Local Public Records", The Saturday Review, p. 176:
      His famous "dragon," so much in request in the neighbouring and dragonless parishes during the period of medieval sentiment, till it appears in a cold-blooded "inventory" as "made of hoopis and coveryd wyth canvass," is as life-like an illustration as could well be given of the disillusionizing processes of the Reformation.
    • 2002, Anne McCaffrey, The Renegades of Pern, p. 79:
      As a dragonless man, he was held in a certain respect by the other men.

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