Definition of Raimentless

1. Adjective. Possessing no clothing.

Exact synonyms: Clothesless, Garmentless
Similar to: Unclothed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Raimentless

railway train
railway vehicle
railway vehicles
railway yard
railwayana
railwayless
railwaylike
railwayman
railwaymen
railways
railworks
railyard
railyards
raim
raiment
raimentless (current term)
raiments
rain
rain-soaked
rain-wash
rain barrel
rain buckets
rain cats and dogs
rain check
rain checks
rain cheque
rain cheques
rain cloud
rain clouds
rain collar

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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