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Mateless

adjective
1.
Not mated sexually.
2.
Of someone who has no marriage partner.





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"Mateless" Quotes from Famous Books



... Spring I'd listen to the daylight birds 10 That build their nests and pair and sing, Nor wait for mateless nightingale; I'd listen to the lusty herds, The ewes with lambs as white as snow, I'd find out music in the hail And all the winds ...
— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti
... lamentable tale from high aloft was rolled. And many a saying furthermore of god-loved seers of old Fears her with dreadful memory: all wild amid her dreams Cruel AEneas drives her on, and evermore she seems Left all alone; and evermore a road that never ends, Mateless, and seeking through the waste her Tyrian folk, she wends. As raving Pentheus saw the rout of that Well-willing Folk, When twofold sun and twofold Thebes upon his eyes outbroke: 470 Or like as Agamemnon's ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil


Words linked to "Mateless" :   unmarried, unmated, single


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