{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "I will not suggest that you pray a requestless prayer right now. Today may be when you have some of your greatest needs. But try it sometime, to pray only praise and thanksgiving.", "ref": "1978, Raymond H. Woolsey, “August 4: The Prayer of Thanksgiving”, in Joy in the Morning, Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 224:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[35, 46]]}, {"text": "The only time there is no incoming request is when the application is first called. Thus, the app logic shunts all “requestless” transactions to the print_form function, which prints the application’s first page—its welcome page.", "ref": "2005, Craig D. Knuckles, David S. Yuen, “Hidden Form Elements for Application Logic and State”, in Web Applications: Concepts & Real World Design, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, chapter 7 (Maintaining State in Web Applications), page 283:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[116, 127]]}, {"text": "She had no requests at all. At last she’d attained such a state. Requests led to anguish, a correlation anybody would recognize. Best to do away with them altogether. But Pasha persisted. There’s absolutely nothing in particular you want to see? Was this a test? Was the requestless existence she considered an accomplishment actually a failure?", "ref": "2014, Yelena Akhtiorskaya, chapter 12, in Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, part 2 (2008), page 233:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[271, 282]]}], "links": [["request", "request"]], "categories": ["English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms suffixed with -less", "English terms with quotations", "English uncomparable adjectives", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries"], "glosses": ["Without a request."], "tags": ["not-comparable"]}], "pos": "adj", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-adj", "args": {"1": "-"}, "expansion": "requestless (not comparable)"}], "etymology_text": "From request + -less.", "etymology_templates": [{"name": "suffix", "args": {"1": "en", "2": "request", "3": "less"}, "expansion": "request + -less"}], "word": "requestless", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}