redeless

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The name stands not as meaning that he was unprepared, but that he was without counsel, or "redeless".

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  1. Without counsel or wisdom; wild. For drede of hire drem [she] deulfulli quaked, … & romed than redli al redles to hure chapel, & godly be-souʒt God to gode turne hire sweuen. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), l. 2915. Now, Richard the redeles, reweth [have pity] on ʒou-self, That lawelesse leddyn ʒoure lyf, and ʒoure peple bothe. Richard the Redeless (ed. Skeat), i. 1. The opponents of Eadward … dreaded that he would “govern by his own unbridled will,” that he would be, in a word, what they afterwards called Æthelred—a king redeless, or uncounselled. J. R. Green, Conq. of England, p. 339.

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  1. Middle English redeles, redles, from Anglo-Saxon rǣdleás (=Old High German rātilos, Middle High German G. ratlos =Icelandic rādhlauss), without counsel, unwise, confused, from rǣd, counsel (see read, n.), + -leás, English -less.
 

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