Sac-leás

adj. I. free from charge or accusation, innocent :-- Swerian hig ðæt hig nellan nǽnne sacleásan man forsecgean ne nǽnne sacne forhelan, L. Eth. iii. 3; Th. i. 294, 5. Fiónge mec habbaþ sacleósne (sacleás, Lind., cf. Icel. saklaust without cause) odio me habuerunt gratis, Jn. Skt. Rush. 15, 25. II. free from charge or contention, unmolested, secure :-- On ðæt gerád ðæt ðes cynges men sacleás beón móston on ðám castelan ðe hí ǽr þes eorles unþances begiten hæfdon, Chr. 1091; Erl. 227, 9. Eádgár æþeling wæs gefangen; ðone lét se cyng syððan sacleás faran, 1106; Erl. 241, 20. Sacleáso iwih wé gedóeþ securos vos faciemus, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 28, 14. [Ðo þe hadden on þesse liue alle here sunnes forleten and bet . . . alle he quað hem saclese, O. E. Homl. ii. 171, 35. Wass Crist sacclæs o rode naȝȝedd, Orm. 1900. Sacles (without strife, freely) he let hin welden it so, Gen. and Ex. 916. Icel. sak-lauss innocent, not guilty. Sackless still remains in Northern dialects, but seems to have got a meaning, with which innocent also is used, that of silly, simple.