Meanings
comparative more weetless · superlative most weetless
- archaicUnknowing, unconscious.
But the false Archer, which that arrow shot / So slyly that she did not feele the wound, / Did smyle full smoothly at her weetlesse wofull stound.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC - obsoleteMeaningless.
Syker, thous but a laesie loord, and rekes much of thy swinck, / That with fond termes, and weetlesse words to blere myne eyes doest thinke.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iulye. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
Origin
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