Talk:makeless

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makeless

• (now archaic, rare) Matchless, without equal, peerless.
  • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X (in Middle English):

    it happed the kynge and launcelot stode in a wyndowe / and sawe syre Tristram ryde and Isoud / Syre sayd Launcelot yonder rydeth the fayrest lady of the world excepte youre quene Dame Gueneuer / who is that said sir Arthur / Sir sayd he / it is quene Isoud that oute taken my lady your quene she is makeles

    (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Removed / moved to Middle English by Astova. J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Seems to exist, but the spelling is highly unstable. Crafty searching in EEBO might just do it. This, that and the other (talk) 09:12, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Cited This, that and the other (talk) 01:40, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed This, that and the other (talk) 09:32, 1 March 2022 (UTC)