Adjective

(-)

Without war, devoid of war.

* {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Samuel F. B. Morse, title=Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Alas! in this he did not prove himself a true prophet, although it must be conceded that many wars have been averted or shortened by means of the telegraph, and there are some who hope that a warless age is even now being conceived in the womb of time.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1916, author=H. G. Wells, title=What is Coming?, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It is really quite idle to dream of a warless world in which States are still absolutely free to annoy one another with tariffs, with the blocking and squeezing of trade routes, with the ill-treatment of immigrants and travelling strangers, and between which there is no means of settling boundary disputes.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Kenneth Morris, title=The Crest-Wave of Evolution, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Well; for nine and twenty years he held that vast empire warless ; even though it included within its boundaries many restless and savage tribes.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Unwary, incautious.

(obsolete) Unaware of danger etc; unguarded.

*1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:

*:Both they vnwise, and warelesse of the euill, / That by themselues vnto themselues is wrought, / Through that false witch [...].