different between healless vs mealless

English

From Middle English heleles, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) +? -less. Compare healful.

healless (comparative more healless, superlative most healless)

Incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable.
- 2010, Friedrich Ohly, Linda Archibald, George Steiner, The Damned and the Elect: Guilt in Western Culture:
  A capacity for sin so healless that it makes its man despair from his heart of redemption - that is the true theological way to salvation.

meal +? -less

mealless (not comparable)

Without a meal.
- 1994, Gerald Handel, Gail G. Whitchurch, The psychosocial interior of the family (page 617)
  One afternoon Laura damaged some furniture, and Mr. Sherman prescribed as her punishment a mealless evening.

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