balelessadj.
/ˈbeɪlləs/, U.S. /ˈbeɪ(l)ləs/ archaic.
Harmless, innocent.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [adjective] > unexceptionable
balelessa1000
unquestionable1597
well1661
unexceptionable1681
unexceptable1702
unobjectible1710
respectable1752
unobjectionable1759
undeniable1793
a1000 Gnom. V. Ex. (Gr.) 39 Bealoléas heorte.
1065 Anglo-Saxon Chron., Elegy Edw. Conf. (MS. C.) Wæs á bliðe-mod bealuleas kyng [D. bealeleas].
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 227 Þay in balelez blod þer blenden her handez.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. 30 Looked back to the happy days of the baleless king.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.a1000- to put up to the hammer
- to put up with
- to put up, turn up hair
- to put up, turn up one's hair
- to put upon
- to put upon an issue
- to put upon her mettle
- to put upon his mettle
- to put upon issue
- to put upon record
- to put venture all one's eggs in one basket
- to put voodoo on
- to put water in a person's worts
- to put where the sun don't shine
- to put wise
- to put wise to
- to put with the stone
- to put words into a person's mouth
- to put years on a person
- to put yorkshire on one
- to put your heads together
- to put, drive, reduce, etc to the last shifts
- to put, etc, under the spear
- to put, lay, lay down or set a thing at stake or at the stake
- to put, lay, lay down or set at stake or at the stake