botleas

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Definition of botleas

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable)Too grievous to be atoned for by the payment of a bōt or bōte; irredeemable, unpardonable.

“Persons guilty of the botleas crimes had no right to any particular punishment. Thus the convicted could not “complain if a foot was taken instead of his eyes, or if he was hanged instead of beheaded”.”

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Learned borrowing from Old English bōtlēas (“unpardonable”). Doublet of bootless.

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