"mateless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mate + -less.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1848, [William] Wilkie Collins, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A., volume I, London: Longman, […] , page 227:",
          "text": "That he did not glory, however, in his mateless solitude, but rather, like a true knight, longed for the first opportunity pour faire le gallant, vis-à-vis de sa maitresse, is pleasantly testified in the letter that is now subjoined.",
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        "Without a mate."
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  "word": "mateless"
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  "etymology_text": "From mate + -less.",
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          "text": "That he did not glory, however, in his mateless solitude, but rather, like a true knight, longed for the first opportunity pour faire le gallant, vis-à-vis de sa maitresse, is pleasantly testified in the letter that is now subjoined.",
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