sackless

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Without a sack. not-comparable
    — 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.
  2. Blameless, guiltless, innocent. Northern-England,archaic,poetic
    — […] And where that sackless knight lies slain, […] The candles will burn bright.

词形变化

more sackless comparative most sackless superlative sakeless alternative saikless alternative,Scotland saickless alternative,Scotland

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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