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  • adjective Without germs.

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  • adjective Free from germs

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Examples

  • Keep new, germless copies of the bible in a dispensary room available on demand.

    MD. Chaplain gets the boot for halting Christian bible placement in hospital | Jewschool 2007

  • Firstly, black-winged Night laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebus, and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Eros with his glittering golden wings, swift as the whirlwinds of the tempest.

    The Birds 2000

  • Firstly, black-winged Night laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebus, and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Eros with his glittering golden wings, swift as the whirlwinds of the tempest.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Firstly, black-winged Night laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebus, and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Eros with his glittering golden wings, swift as the whirlwinds of the tempest.

    The Birds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Further, though she loved and cared for them, she knew far less of hygiene than her descendant; she did not try to bring them up in a germless way; and her household activities kept her too busy to allow her to notice each running nose, or each "festering sore."

    The Nervous Housewife Abraham Myerson 1914

  • In those germless days she had worn bits of broom-straw, plucked from the common sweeping-broom, in the lobes until the holes were healed and ready for little gold rings.

    O Pioneers! Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • _ I am studying him and, despite his protean manifestations, have discovered three principal ingredients: malaria, bronchitis and hay-fever -- not your ordinary hay-fever, oh, no! but such as a mammoth might conceivably catch, if thrust back from his germless, frozen tundras into the damply blossoming

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • The streams are germless, and the forest cannot be devastated.

    Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Hamlin Garland 1900

  • Through this land of color, of repose, of romance, the young traveler rode, drinking deep of the germless air, feeling that the girl behind him was a wondrous part of this wild and unaccountable country.

    The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range Hamlin Garland 1900

  • He varied the experiment in every direction, but matter in the germless air never yielded life.

    Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874

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