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feckless, a. Originally Sc. and north. dial., but now not infrequent in literary use.|ˈfɛklɪs|
Also 7 fectless.
[f. as prec. + -less.]
Of things: Ineffective, feeble, futile, valueless. Of persons, their actions and attributes: Destitute of vigour, energy, or capacity; weak, helpless.
1599Jas. I βασιλ. Δωρον (1682) 33 A fecklesse arrogant conceit of their greatnes and power. a1605Montgomerie Sonn. xix. 4 Their feckles flyting is not worth a flie. 1619Z. Boyd Last Battell (1629) 242 My Faith is both faint and fectlesse. 1632Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 91 Let others take their silly, feckless heaven in this life. a1774Fergusson Hallowfair Poet. Wks. (1845) 15 Wi' that he gat anither straik..That gart his feckless body ache. 1823Carlyle Early Lett. II. 252, I am so feckless at present that I have never yet had the heart to commence it. 1855Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xxxvii, I'm a poor black feckless sheep—childer may clem for aught I can do. 1869Trollope He Knew vii. (1878) 41 They're feckless, idle young ladies.
Hence ˈfecklessly adv., in a feckless manner; ˈfecklessness, the state of being feckless; want of energy, feebleness.
1862T. A. Trollope Marietta II. iv. 71 Lamely, fecklessly, incapably. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 362 Love over⁓looketh blackness and fecklessness. 1893Athenæum 21 Jan. 82/3 Great general fecklessness and want of resource in not trying to save the ship after she took the ground. |