Meanings
comparative more hurtless · superlative most hurtless
- Not causing hurt; harmless.
[…] to live as normally as possible while making every effort to learn to live the hurtless, kindly and unselfish life […]
2015, Max Freedom Long, The Huna Code in Religions, page 1911 more example
Blaming of Fortune, which such troubles threw, / And ioyd to make proofe of her crueltie / On gentle Dame, so hurtlesse, and so trew [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC - obsoleteUnhurt.
Origin
- Middle Englishhurtlees, hurtles“unhurt”
- Englishhurtless
From Middle English hurtlees, hurtles (“unhurt”), equivalent to hurt + -less.
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