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excuseless, a.|ɛkˈskjuːslɪs|
[f. prec. + -less.]
Without excuse.
1. Of a person:
a. Having no excuse to offer.
1548Turner Names of Herbes 5 Because..that Poticaries shoulde be excuselesse..I have shewed in what places..the herbes growe. 1608W. Sclater Malachy (1650) 5 Then surely are we utterly excuseless. 1711Peace in Divinity 2 The Reprobate shall have such Grace only procur'd for him, as will render him excuseless.
†b. Not offering an excuse. Obs.
1640Quarles Enchirid. ii. ii, Charity is a naked child..Naked, because excuselesse and simple.
2. Of things: Admitting of no excuse; inexcusable.
1611W. Sclater Key (1629) 96 Such an excuselesse sinne is vnthankefulnesse. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 301 Excuselesse is the idle mans nihil agendo, sleeping out his Lamp. 1667Decay Chr. Piety xvi. ⁋3 The voluntary enslaving my self is more excuseless. 1889Eng. Illust. Mag. Sept. 894/2 An absolutely excuseless egotism. |