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botleas

Adjective

Meaning

botleas (not comparable)

(Anglo-Saxon England, law, of a crime) Too grievous to be atoned for by the payment of a bōt or bōte; irredeemable, unpardonable.

bōtlēas

bootless, unpardonable, what cannot be redeemed, recompensed or expiated by the payment of boot

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Some wrongs in later law codes were botleas ‘without remedy’ (e.g. theft, open murder, arson, treason against one's lord), that is, unable to be compensated, and those convicted of a botleas crime were at the king's mercy. Source: Internet

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