makeless
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Matchless, without equal, peerless.
— Consider Cyrus in your cruell thought, A makelesse Prince in riches, and in might.
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Without a mate; widowed.
— For, stoode it with the pleasure of his will To marrie me, my fortune is not such, So hard, that I so long should still persist Makelesse alone in wofull widowhood.
词源
From Middle English makeles, equivalent to make (“companion, mate, equal, peer”) + -less. Cognate with Danish mageløs (“matchless”), Swedish makalös (“incomparable, peerless, matchless”).
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