spoilless
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editspoilless (not comparable)
- Without spoils or plunder.
- 1892, Rev. Herbert Henry Gowen, The Paradise of the Pacific, page 129:
- Now and then a gaudy peacock would run from his shelter in the lauhala trees, but no wild boars came out, so we returned from our raid bloodless and spoilless.
- 2021, Renaud Gagné, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, page 166:
- The absence of Kallisto and the spoilless return from the hunt go hand-in-hand, and they are elegantly combined with the return of Apollo to Leto.