wreakless

English

Etymology

From wreak +‎ -less.

Adjective

wreakless (comparative more wreakless, superlative most wreakless)

  1. (obsolete) unrevengeful.
    • 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]:
      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.
    • 1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Birthday Ode" (poem) in Songs of the Springtides
      And under these the watch of wreakless wrong

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