wemlesse

Middle English

Adjective

wemlesse

1. Having no wem, or blemish; spotless.
   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Orisoune to the Holy Virgin:

     Thou pitouse lady and virgyne wemlesse

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   • ?a. 1425, “The Temptation”, in Chester Mystery Plays, lines 25–28:

     Sythen the world first begane / knewe I never such a man / borne of a deadlych woman, / and hee yet wembles.

     Since the world first began, I never knew a man be born of a mortal woman and yet be without blemish.

References

• “wemless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.