wretchless
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Alteration of retchless, equivalent to retch (“reck; care; regard”) + -less. See reckless.
Adjective[edit]
wretchless (comparative more wretchless, superlative most wretchless)
- (obsolete) reckless
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:
- That you should be so wretchless!
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- wretchless neglect of religion
- (obsolete) disregarded
- c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia
- Sleep you now
Upon the bench, when your deaf ears should listen
Unto the wretchless clamours of the poor?
- Sleep you now
- c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “wretchless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.