meatlessness — 英語辞典

名詞

1. Absence of meat.

   用法

   • 不可算

   例文

   その他の例文 (1)

   My soup has the positive constitutive property of being carroty, of having carrots in it; of carrotiness; it has the negative constitutive property of lacking meat, of meatlessness.

2. Abstention from meat; vegetarianism.

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   例文

   When Hoover's conservating pen / Cut down our steak and sausage ration / With one accord we cried "AMEN," / And meatlessness became the fashion.

   But though Mohandas found himself arguing with his friend in defense of meatlessness, he never seriously contemplated breaking the vow.