"sackless" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more sackless [comparative], most sackless [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English sakles, sacless (“innocent”), from Old English saclēas (“free from charge, innocent, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *sakalausaz (“free from accusation”), equivalent to sake + -less. Cognate with Danish sagesløs (“blameless”), Swedish saklös (“blamesless”), Icelandic saklaus (“innocent”), Faroese sakleysur (“unoffending, innocent”). More at sake, -less. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|sakles}} Middle English sakles, {{m|enm|sacless||innocent}} sacless (“innocent”), {{inh|en|ang|saclēas||free from charge, innocent, safe}} Old English saclēas (“free from charge, innocent, safe”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*sakalausaz||free from accusation}} Proto-Germanic *sakalausaz (“free from accusation”), {{suffix|en|sake|less}} sake + -less, {{cog|da|sagesløs||blameless}} Danish sagesløs (“blameless”), {{cog|sv|saklös||blamesless}} Swedish saklös (“blamesless”), {{cog|is|saklaus||innocent}} Icelandic saklaus (“innocent”), {{cog|fo|sakleysur||unoffending, innocent}} Faroese sakleysur (“unoffending, innocent”), {{l|en|sake}} sake, {{l|en|-less}} -less Head templates: {{en-adj}} sackless (comparative more sackless, superlative most sackless)
  1. (provincial, Northern England, poetic or archaic) Blameless, guiltless, innocent. Tags: Northern-England, archaic, poetic Synonyms: saikless [Scottish]

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