Where does wineless come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

wineless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Without wine.

"Jesus meets the felt needs of the poor such as turning water into wine as a service to the wineless..."
"After the stolidity of my childhood—the affluent Midwest of new Cadillacs, Negro maids, and wineless six-o’clock dinners […]"
"Polemon in his work Against Timaios says that there are wineless sacrifices..."

From Middle English wynelesse; equivalent to wine + -less.

winelessness

vineless

wineful wined up

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