wreakless
English
Etymology
Adjective
wreakless (comparative more wreakless, superlative most wreakless)
- (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
References
- “wreakless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.