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bateless

bateless adjective: not to be abated or subdued; impossible to blunt, curtail, or reduce to anything other than full strength or intensity.

Adjective

bateless (comparative more bateless, superlative most bateless)

  1. (obsolete) Not to be abated or subdued; impossible to blunt, curtail, or reduce to anything other than full strength or intensity.
    • Haply the name of chaste unhapp'ly set / This bateless edge on his keen appetite,1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, lines 8–9

Synonyms of bateless

Forms of bateless

comparativemore bateless
superlativemost bateless

Origin of bateless

From bate + -less.

Questions about bateless

What does bateless mean?
Bateless means not to be abated or subdued; impossible to blunt, curtail, or reduce to anything other than full strength or intensity.
What part of speech is bateless?
Bateless is an adjective.

Words near bateless in the dictionary

  1. batei midrash
  2. bateid
  3. bateids
  4. Bateke
  5. Batekes
  6. bateless
  7. bateleur
  8. bateleur eagle
  9. bateleurs
  10. Bateman
  11. Batemans

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