Noun: les
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des. (He is so good, without falsehood; / (so) he's really suited to sit on a dais.) [15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 5, lines 120–121:]
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We held with hym ther he saide leasse / And therfor have we all unpeasse. (We stayed with him when he uttered untruth, / and therefore we all feel discord.) [c. 1480, “The Creation”, in The Towneley Plays, lines 158–159:]
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Ye shall have joye and blis therin / Whils ye will kepe you out of syn, / I say withoutten lese. (You'll have joy and tranquility within / if you keep yourself out of sin, / I say, without lies.) [c. 1480, “The Creation”, in The Towneley Plays, lines 193–195:]
Nouns inflected like les
syment,
cristened,
savete,
savyne,
sandal,
whelere,
scuage,
scluse,
sclise,
sclave,
schyft,
schuit,
schite,
schort,
schold,
schern,
smothe,
smethe,
smerte,
slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old English lēas (“false, void, loose”).
2. Cognate with Middle High German lōs (“loose”), Old Swedish lø̄s (“loose”); a doublet of loos. See: Old English Nouns '
lēas', Old English Nouns '
lēas'.
Verbs referencing "les"
English Nouns
false, English Nouns
less.
Translations