a. Obs. Forms: 1 ʓieme-, ʓime-, ʓymeleas, 2–3 ȝemeles, 3 ȝemeleas. [OE. ʓíemeléas, f. ʓíeme YEME sb. + -léas -LESS.] Careless, heedless, negligent. Hence † Yemelesliche adv. [OE. ʓíemeléaslíce: see -LY2], carelessly, heedlessly; † Yemeleaschipe [-SHIP], † Yemelest [OE. ʓíemeléast: see -T3], heedlessness, negligence.

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c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xxi. 164. Ond swæ hwelc swæ mid ðæm Godes andan bið onæled, ne bið he for ʓiemeliste [Hatton MS. ʓiemeleste] ʓehiened. Ibid., xlii. 305. Ðæm unbealdum is to cyðanne hu ʓiemelease hie bioð ðonne hie hie selfe to suiðe forsioð.

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c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., II. 84. Þara stowa sum raþe rotaþ ʓif hire mon ʓimeleaslice tilað.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 109. Ȝif þe king bið unrihtwis and ȝif þe biscop bið ȝemeles.

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c. 1200.  Ormin, 2913. Þatt teȝȝ ne falle nohhi i gillt Þurrh ȝure ȝemelæste.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 92. Hwo se ȝemeleasliche witeð hire uttre eien. Ibid., 172. Ȝif heo wit ham vuele, & let ham þuruh ȝemeleaste etfleon hire seruise. Ibid., 202. Ȝemeleaschipe, oðer to siggen, oðer to don,… oðer miswiten ei þing þet heo haueð to witene.

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a. 1240.  Lofsong, in O. E. Hom., I. 205. Ȝemeleas and unlusti.

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