Definition of portionless in English:

adjective

• (of a woman) without a dowry.

  ‘his daughters would be portionless and therefore unlikely to find husbands’

  More example sentences

  • ‘He further insists on the reasonableness of his expectations, mocking the accusation that he would have men abandon pregnant women and leave them portionless.’
  • ‘She was young, portionless, bad with money, indecisive, and indolent.’