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meaht-leás

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Add: weak, impotent, powerless.
physically
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  • Þá fǽringa sáh hé niðer sprǽce benumen and ealre his mihte . . . hé þurh-wunode swá unspecende and mihteleás forð oð þone Ðunresdæg and þá his líf álét,

      Chr. 1053; P. 182, 24.
  • Hí wǽron mid þǽre meteleáste mihtleáse gedóne. Hml. S. 37, 54.
non-physical
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  • Hé bið him swá mihtleás on his módes strece ꝥ hé his underþeóddan egesian ne dear,

      O. E. Hml. i. 301, 6.
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[v. N. E. D. might-less.]
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