steorleas

Old English

Etymology

From stēor + -lēas.

Adjective

stēorlēas

  1. without restrain; unruly, ungovernable, fierce.
  2. Without regulation, rule or instruction, profligate, foolish, ignorant.

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: sterelees, stereles

References

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