Meanings
comparative more wreakless · superlative most wreakless
- obsoleteunrevengeful.
1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Birthday Ode" (poem) in Songs of the Springtides And under these the watch of wreakless wrong
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A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but as a drunken sleepe, carelesse, wreaklesse, and fearelesse of what's past, present, or to come: insensible of mortality, and desperately mortall.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]
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