sackless

adjective

1. Blameless, guiltless, innocent.

   archaic

   The candles will burn bright.

   […] And where that sackless knight lies slain, […]

Where it comes from

From Middle English sakles, sacless (“innocent”), from Old English 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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry sackless (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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