makeless

Etymology

From Middle English makeles, equivalent to make (“companion, mate, equal, peer”) +‎ -less. Cognate with Danish mageløs (“matchless”), Swedish makalös (“incomparable, peerless, matchless”).

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Adjective

makeless (not comparable)

1. (now archaic, rare) Matchless, without equal, peerless.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter lxxiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     it happed the kynge and launcelot stode in a wyndowe / and sawe syre Tristram ryde and Isoud / Syre sayd Launcelot yonder rydeth the fayrest lady of the world excepte youre quene Dame Gueneuer / who is that said sir Arthur / Sir sayd he / it is quene Isoud that oute taken my lady your quene she is makeles

2. (obsolete) Without a mate; widowed.
   • 1592-1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet IX:

     The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife.