sacklessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

sackless (not comparable)

1. Without a sack.
   • 1830, The Spirit of the English Magazines, page 200:

     The first act consisted of dancing, capering, and tumbling, by about twenty men, enveloped in sacks […] At length, at a given signal by the manager, the whole troop of actors rushed to the spot; they were then sackless, but their features were effectually concealed by masks reaching to the bosom.

語源 2

From 中期英語 sakles, sacless (“innocent”), from 古期英語 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.

別の表記

• sakeless
• saikless, saickless (Scotland)

形容詞

sackless (comparative more sackless, superlative most sackless)

1. (provincial, Northern England, poetic or archaic) Blameless, guiltless, innocent.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:innocent

   • 1838, Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: with the author's introductions and notes, page 196:

     […] And where that sackless knight lies slain, […]
     The candles will burn bright.

   • 1900, Eiríkur Magnússon, William Morris, The Story of Grettir the Strong, page 149:

     […] and how Thorir of Garth would not that Grettir should be made sackless.

使用する際の注意点

Though otherwise dated, the word sackless is still used in translations of the Old Norse / Old Icelandic sagas and related contexts.

参照

• Northumberland Words, Oliver Heslop and Harry Haldane, 1894.