"makeless" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1853, Dante Alighieri, translated by William Cayley, Divine Comedy: The Purgatory, Canto XX, line 97, page 147:",
          "text": "That which I mentioned of the makeless Bride [translating Italian unica sposa]\nOf God the Spirit[…]",
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          "text": "I just peeped into the Mediæval Court, in search of the mummy of a cat[…]a bright-eyed little girl directed me to her ancient feline majesty—a thing shapeless and makeless—done up in that queer old mouldering[…]",
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          "text": "For, stoode it with the pleasure of his will\nTo marrie me, my fortune is not such,\nSo hard, that I so long should still persist\nMakelesse alone in wofull widowhood.",
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          "text": "The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife.",
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        "Without a mate; widowed."
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        "(obsolete) Without a mate; widowed."
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