bateless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bateless (comparative more bateless, superlative most bateless)
- (obsolete) Not to be abated or subdued; impossible to blunt, curtail, or reduce to anything other than full strength or intensity.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, lines 8–9:
- Haply the name of chaste unhapp'ly set / This bateless edge on his keen appetite,