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sackless en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
Etymology tree
English sack
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English sackless
From sack + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a sack.
The first act consisted of dancing, capering, and tumbling, by about twenty men, enveloped in sacks […] At length, at a given signal by the manager, the whole troop of actors rushed to the spot; they were then sackless, but their features were effectually concealed by masks reaching to the bosom.
1830, The Spirit of the English Magazines, page 200:
sackless en · ADJ · etymology 2
Etymology
From Middle English sakles, sacless (“innocent”), from Old English saclēas (“free from charge, innocent, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *sakalausaz (“free from accusation”), equivalent to sake + -less. Cognate with Danish sagesløs (“blameless”), Swedish saklös (“blamesless”), Icelandic saklaus (“innocent”), Faroese sakleysur (“unoffending, innocent”). More at sake, -less.
Meanings
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(Northern-England, archaic, poetic, qualifier:provincial) Blameless, guiltless, innocent.
[…] and how Thorir of Garth would not that Grettir should be made sackless.
1900, Eiríkur Magnússon, William Morris, The Story of Grettir the Strong, page 149:[…] And where that sackless knight lies slain, […]
The candles will burn bright.
1838, Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: with the author's introductions and notes, page 196:
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Synonyms
pure · righteous · clean-handed · offenseless · sinless · dovelike · irreprehensible · uncalculating · innocent as the child unborn · clean as a hound's tooth · not guilty · clean · sackless · guiltless · unblameworthy · blameless · clear · innocent · nonblameworthy · innocent as the babe unborn · clean as a whistle · unguilty · unblameable