botleas

Etymology

From Old English bōtlēas (“unpardonable”), from bōt (“compensation for an injury or wrong”) + -lēas (“-less”). Doublet of bootless.

Adjective

botleas (not comparable)

1. (early English legal historical, 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”.

Anagrams

• Seabolt, boatels, oblates

Etymology

From bōt +‎ -lēas.

Adjective

bōtlēas

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