"idiomless" meaning in English

See idiomless in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From idiom + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|idiom|less}} idiom + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} idiomless (not comparable)
  1. without idioms. Tags: not-comparable
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          "ref": "1949, American Statistical Association, Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 44, page 80:",
          "text": "The eight proposed criteria of excellence are that: its sentences should be idiomless and ordered in wording; its words should be univocal in meaning, flectionless, phonetic in spelling and unique in pronunciation; its letters should be unique in sound and shape.",
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          "ref": "1960, John T. Saywell, editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, page 319:",
          "text": "Certainly there is nothing fresh or exciting about his eclectic, idiomless, no-man's language, his monotonous, cluttered, trailing syntax, and his loosely shaped arguments.",
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          "ref": "2003, Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Modern Culture, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 199:",
          "text": "It is a false analogy to say that because we should surrender national sovereignty we should also give up our language and all its literary possibilities for some dismal, idiomless Esperanto;",
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