Definition of "marrowless" []

• Destitute of marrows. (adjective)

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• "But, instead of standing there using vague generalities, it would be interesting if you would tell us what these old marrowless truths are, that we are nourished on."
• "We fighters at the outposts nowadays no longer approve of them; and I do not believe there is any other well-ascertained truth except this, that no community can live a healthy life if it is nourished only on such old marrowless truths."
• "Falstaff going to bed without his cup of sack, or Macbeth fed on bones as marrowless as those of Banquo."