Meanings
comparative more healless · superlative most healless
- Incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable.
A capacity for sin so healless that it makes its man despair from his heart of redemption - that is the true theological way to salvation.
2010, Friedrich Ohly, Linda Archibald, George Steiner, The Damned and the Elect: Guilt in Western Culture1 more example
[…] the hour that Wrung its idol from its core, and left it Bleeding with a healless wound, nor power On earth to staunch and stop the same; […]
1842, John Snowden Hopkins, The poetical works of John Snowden Hopkins
Origin
- Middle Englishheleles
- Englishhealless
From Middle English heleles, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) + -less. Compare healful.
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