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wreakless

wreakless adjective: unrevengeful.

Adjective

wreakless (comparative more wreakless, superlative most wreakless)

  1. (obsolete) unrevengeful.
    • 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]...
    • And under these the watch of wreakless wrong1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Birthday Ode" (poem) in Songs of the Springtides

Forms of wreakless

comparativemore wreakless
superlativemost wreakless

Origin of wreakless

From wreak + -less.

Questions about wreakless

What does wreakless mean?
Wreakless means unrevengeful.
What part of speech is wreakless?
Wreakless is an adjective.

Words near wreakless in the dictionary

  1. wreaketh
  2. wreakful
  3. wreaking
  4. wreaking havoc
  5. wreakings
  6. wreakless
  7. wreaks
  8. Wreaks End
  9. wreaks havoc
  10. wreath
  11. wreath product

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