Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Free from ransom; without the payment of ransom.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

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Examples

  • They evaporated at checkpoints and into ransomless kidnappings, their fates unknown and yet a terrible certainty to this day.

    Day of Honey

  • They evaporated at checkpoints and into ransomless kidnappings, their fates unknown and yet a terrible certainty to this day.

    Day of Honey

  • Both in manner and in matter these last two lines are pure Shakespeare, and Shakespeare speaks to us, too, when Prince Henry gives up Douglas to his pleasure “ransomless and free.”

    The Man Shakespeare

  • Both in manner and in matter these last two lines are pure Shakespeare, and Shakespeare speaks to us, too, when Prince Henry gives up Douglas to his pleasure "ransomless and free."

    The Man Shakespeare

  • I propose to show you that sometimes God suddenly removes from us our gospel opportunities, and that, when He has done so, our case is ransomless.

    New Tabernacle Sermons

  • Need I say that Aymer, under a flag of truce, escorted her ransomless, her veil never raised from her face, to the tent of the Saracen king?

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 05

  • Need I say that Aymer, under a flag of truce, escorted her ransomless, her veil never raised from her face, to the tent of the Saracen king?

    The Last of the Barons — Complete

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