Meaning of retchless | Babel Free

Definitions

careless; reckless

obsolete

Examples

“They are such retchless flies as you are, that blow⟳ cutpurses abroad in every corner; your foolish having of money makes 'em.”

“Retchless of laws, affects to rule⟳ alone”

“For if so be that God justly do thus give⟳ to Satan and his seed to vex and molest Christ and his penitent people, O what and how justly may he and will he give⟳ to Satan to entreat the retchless and impenitent sinners!”

“But this care and charity of Colonel Walrond's, lost him nothing in the conclusion; for he got such love⟳ of his servants; as they thought all too little they could do for him; and the love⟳ of the servants there, is of much concernment to the masters, not only in their diligent and painful labour, but in foreseeing and preventing mischiefs that often happen⟳; by the carelessness and slothfulness of retchless servants; sometimes by laying fire so negligently, as whole lands of canes and houses too, are burnt down and consumed, to the utter ruin and undoing of their masters:”

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