hurtless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈhəːtləs/ (UK)
Etymology
From Middle English hurtlees, hurtles (“unhurt”), equivalent to hurt + -less.
Meanings
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Not causing hurt; harmless.
[…] to live as normally as possible while making every effort to learn to live the hurtless, kindly and unselfish life […]
2015, Max Freedom Long, The Huna Code in Religions, page 191:Blaming of Fortune, which such troubles threw, / And ioyd to make proofe of her crueltie / On gentle Dame, so hurtlesse, and so trew [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- (obsolete) Unhurt.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more hurtless | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most hurtless | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |