botleas

English

Etymology

From Old English bōtlēas (“unpardonable”), from bōt (“compensation for an injury or wrong”) + -lēas (“-less”). Doublet of bootless.

Adjective

botleas (not comparable)

  1. (early English legal historical, of a crime) Too grievous to be atoned for by the payment of a bōt or bōte; irredeemable, unpardonable.
    • 1991, Carla Ann Hage Johnson, “Entitled to Clemency: Mercy in the Criminal Law” in Law and Philosophy X, № 1 (February 1991), page 112:
      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”.

Anagrams

Old English

Etymology

From bōt +‎ -lēas.

Adjective

bōtlēas

  1. Bootless, unpardonable, what cannot be redeemed, recompensed or expiated by the payment of boot.

Declension
Declension of botleas — Strong
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative bōtlēas bōtlēas bōtlēas
Accusative bōtlēasne bōtlēase bōtlēas
Genitive bōtlēases bōtlēasre bōtlēases
Dative bōtlēasum bōtlēasre bōtlēasum
Instrumental bōtlēase bōtlēasre bōtlēase
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative bōtlēase bōtlēasa, -e bōtlēas
Accusative bōtlēase bōtlēasa, -e bōtlēas
Genitive bōtlēasra bōtlēasra bōtlēasra
Dative bōtlēasum bōtlēasum bōtlēasum
Instrumental bōtlēasum bōtlēasum bōtlēasum
Declension of botleas — Weak
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative bōtlēasa bōtlēase bōtlēase
Accusative bōtlēasan bōtlēasan bōtlēase
Genitive bōtlēasan bōtlēasan bōtlēasan
Dative bōtlēasan bōtlēasan bōtlēasan
Instrumental bōtlēasan bōtlēasan bōtlēasan
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative bōtlēasan bōtlēasan bōtlēasan
Accusative bōtlēasan bōtlēasan bōtlēasan
Genitive bōtlēasra, bōtlēasena bōtlēasra, bōtlēasena bōtlēasra, bōtlēasena
Dative bōtlēasum bōtlēasum bōtlēasum
Instrumental bōtlēasum bōtlēasum bōtlēasum

Descendants

References
  • bótleás in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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