adj
Meaning 1
Without a sack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sackless
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adj
Meaning 2
Blameless, guiltless, innocent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, archaic, poetic
Qualifier: provincial
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: blameless, clean, clean-handed, clean as a hound's tooth, clean as a whistle, clear, dovelike, guiltless, innocent, innocent as the babe unborn, innocent as the child unborn, irreprehensible, nonblameworthy, not guilty, offenseless, pure, righteous, sackless, sinless, unblameable, unblameworthy, uncalculating, unguilty
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
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.