scatheless, a.
(ˈskeɪðlɪs)
Forms: see scathe n.
[f. scathe n. + -less. Cf. ON. skaðlauss.]
Without scathe; unharmed. † Const. of.
| c 1200 Ormin 12038 Ȝiff þatt he lupe dun All skaþelæs till eorþe. c 1350 Will. Palerne 1855 To a-schape schaþles fram þat schamful best. a 1366 Chaucer Rom. Rose 1550 That scathles, fulle sykerly, I myght unto the welle goo. a 1400–50 [see scathel]. 1563 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 241 To keip him skaithless of the samyn [penalty]. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xv, ‘I wad ware the best blood in my body to keep her skaithless,’ said Jeanie. 1865 Trollope Belton Est. xxviii. 341 It is a game from which you will come out scatheless, but I have been scalded. 1884 Law Times LXXVIII. 57/1 The wife and the fortunate individual who shared her indictment escaped scatheless. |
Hence ˈscathelessly adv.
| 1844 Tupper Heart xi. 121 In the hope..of ruining him, if not of getting scathelessly off themselves. 1858 J. H. Bennet Nutrition vi. 209 The soldier who..passes scathlessly through twenty campaigns. |