ceremoniless

English

Etymology

From ceremony +‎ -less.

Adjective

ceremoniless (comparative more ceremoniless, superlative most ceremoniless)

  1. (rare) Without ceremony.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.13:
      The company and dayly conversation of so many noble, young, and active men, cannot but bee well-pleasing to you; the dayly and ordinary sight of so divers tragicall spectacles; the liberty and uncontroled freedome of that artelesse and unaffected conversation, masculine and ceremonilesse maner of life […].
    • 2001, Immigration Law: Basics and More:
      "Customary" or ceremoniless marriages present particular problems of proof.
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