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Definition of Raimentless
1. Adjective. Possessing no clothing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raimentless
Literary usage of Raimentless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey by Homer (1903)
"... As from some poor man's house and raimentless Who from his halls the stranger
forth must send, " Because few cloaks or blankets they supply For him and ..."
2. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... As though from a poor man's dwelling and the house of a raimentless wight, As
from one who nothing of blankets or of rugs in his house doth keep, ..."
3. De Bow's Review by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell (1859)
"Bat homeless, houseless, foodless, and raimentless, he becomes a wanderer and a
vagabond on the face of the earth. And if, in his helpless and forlorn ..."
4. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1867)
"... not to be stripped of his body and wander in the dark spaces of eternity a
raimentless spirit, but to be clothed upon with his attire from heaven, ..."
5. Poems by Robert Williams Buchanan (1866)
"I was stirring in the leaves that shaded The Garden where the Man and Woman
smiled: I saw them later, raimentless, degraded, The apple sour upon their ..."
6. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1886)
"And straight he saw with his black eyes and bold That many maidens, thinking no
one by, All raimentless and whiter to behold Than any lily-flower that ..."
7. The Reformed Quarterly Review by Thomas G. Apple (1886)
"Capital is not available without labor; and the poor man must go hungry, and
raimentless and shelterless, unless he can dispose of his labor. ..."
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