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▪ I. yokeless, a. rare.|ˈjəʊklɪs|
[f. yoke n.1 + -less. Used as a rendering of L. absque jugo ‘without yoke’, the interpretation given by Jerome of Heb. b'li-yaﻋal Belial, as b'li without + ﻋōl yoke.]
Without a yoke; fig. not under subjection or restraint, unrestrained, dissolute.
1596Lodge Divel Coniured (Hunter. Cl.) 21 He is like⁓wise called Sathan, because an aduersary:..and Belial, because yoakles. 1641Trappe Theol. Theol. iv. 180 These Yokelesse Belialists snuffe at it as over-strict. 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 464 Brainless fellows, light and empty, yokeless and masterless persons. 1680C. Nesse Church Hist. 104 Those men of Belial or, as the word signifies, yokeless ones.
▪ II. yokeless, n. nonce-wd.|jəʊk(ə)ˈlɛs|
[f. yokel + -ess.]
A female yokel.
1925D. H. Lawrence Refl. on Death of Porcupine 182 As for the yokel, his little stream may have flowed out of commonplace little hills, and been ready to mingle with the streams of any easy, puddly little yokeless. |