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Makeless
Webster 1828 Edition
Makeless
MA'KELESS
,Adj.
Definition 2024
makeless
makeless
English
Adjective
makeless (not comparable)
- (now archaic, rare) Matchless, without equal, peerless.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter lxxiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- it happed the kynge and launcelot stode in a wyndowe / and sawe syre Tristram ryde and Isoud / Syre sayd Launcelot yonder rydeth the fayrest lady of the world excepte youre quene Dame Gueneuer / who is that said sir Arthur / Sir sayd he / it is quene Isoud that oute taken my lady your quene she is makeles
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter lxxiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- (obsolete) Without a mate; widowed.
- 1592-1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet IX:
- The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife.
- 1592-1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet IX: