Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English makeles, equivalent to make (“companion, mate, equal, peer”) + -less. Cognate with Danish mageløs ("matchless"), Swedish makalös ("incomparable, peerless, matchless"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Dinas, ye shall understand that Sir Tristram is called peerless and makeless of any Christian knight, and of his might and hardiness we knew none so good a knight, but if it be Sir Launcelot du Lake.”
“And sir, said Sir Dinas, ye shall understand that Sir Tristram is called peerless and makeless of any Christian knight, and of his might and hardiness we knew none so good a knight, but if it be”
“And then they all three cried: Sir knight, we yield us unto you as a man of might makeless.”
“Sir, said he, it is Queen Isoud that, out-taken my lady your queen, she is makeless.”
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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alternative spellings
medieval spellings of common words that have a certain spell to them
bewtie, vertew, gramarye, musterion, makeless, moond, sparkill, briddes, lullay, pursew, gentilness, delightsome and 37 more...
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fbharjo would you shake a spear - makeshift- at that? "Makeless" is Shakespeare's word for "unique" Oct 16, 2007
patchouli A sibling of makeshift, perhaps. Sep 7, 2007
fbharjo 15th century word which would be translated as matchless or unique today Sep 3, 2007