makeless

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/ˈmeɪkləs/

adjective

Matchless, without equal, peerless.

OriginMiddle English makeles →
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Meanings

adjectivemakeless (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparablerareMatchless, without equal, peerless.

    Consider Cyrus in your cruell thought, A makelesse Prince in riches, and in might.

    1578, “The Complaynt of Henry Duke of Buckingham”, in William Baldwin, editor, The last part [part 3] of the Mirour for magistrates, page 140
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    That which I mentioned of the makeless Bride [translating Italian unica sposa] Of God the Spirit[…]

    1853, Dante Alighieri, translated by William Cayley, Divine Comedy: The Purgatory, Canto XX, line 97, page 147

    I just peeped into the Mediæval Court, in search of the mummy of a cat[…]a bright-eyed little girl directed me to her ancient feline majesty—a thing shapeless and makeless—done up in that queer old mouldering[…]

    1861 November, Emerald Green, “A Day in the Dublin Exhibition”, in The Family Friend, page 506
  2. not comparableobsoleteWithout a mate; widowed.

    The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife.

    1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet IX”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
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    For, stoode it with the pleasure of his will To marrie me, my fortune is not such, So hard, that I so long should still persist Makelesse alone in wofull widowhood.

    1591, Robert Wilmot, The tragedie of Tancred and Gismund, act 2, scene 1

Origin

  1. Middle Englishmakeles
  2. Englishmakeless

From Middle English makeles, equivalent to make (“companion, mate, equal, peer”) + -less. Cognate with Danish mageløs (“matchless”), Swedish makalös (“incomparable, peerless, matchless”).

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Translations

Dutch onvergelijkelijk, geweeuwd
  • onvergelijkelijkmatchless
  • geweeuwdwidowed

Rhymes & wordplay

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Chicago

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