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fleckless en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From fleck + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without flecks, spots or blemishes.
    • As he drove down Blackheath Hill that bright May morning, with the sky a fleckless blue and the world bathed in yellow sunshine, it seemed impossible that this terrible thing could happen. 1921, Edgar Wallace, The Day of Uniting, Chapter 17:
    • the kiss to the maiden’s lips came as a fleckless delight, 1897, Julia Ditto Young, The Story of Saville, Part 8:
  2. (not-comparable) Without blame; faultless.
    • My conscience will not count me fleckless. 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 2”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

Deriveds

flecklessness · flecklessly