botleasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

botleas (not comparable)

1. (Anglo-Saxon England, law, of a crime) Too grievous to be atoned for by the payment of a bōt or bōte; irredeemable, unpardonable.
   • 1991, Carla Ann Hage Johnson, “Entitled to Clemency: Mercy in the Criminal Law” in Law and Philosophy X, № 1 (February 1991), page 112:

     Persons guilty of the botleas crimes had no right to any particular punishment. Thus the convicted could not “complain if a foot was taken instead of his eyes, or if he was hanged instead of beheaded”.

アナグラム

• Seabolt, boatels, oblates

語源

From bōt +‎ -lēas.

形容詞

bōtlēas

1. Bootless, unpardonable, what cannot be redeemed, recompensed or expiated by the payment of boot.

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: boteles, botles, botelees, booteles, botelesse, bootles, butelesse
  • English: bootless
• → English: botleas

参照

• bótleás in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary