retchlesse

English

retchlesse (comparative more retchlesse, superlative most retchlesse)

Obsolete spelling of retchless.
- 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50:
  […] but the other being ſecure and retchleſſe, ſpent their time in eaſe and ſloth, not vſing any meanes to bee prepared againſt the time of his approching, […]