a. arch. [OE. bealuléas, f. bealu BALE sb.1 + -LESS.] Harmless, innocent.

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a. 1000.  Gnom. V. Ex. (Gr.), 39. Bealoléas heorte.

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1065.  O. E. Chron., Elegy Edw. Conf. (MS. C.). Wæs á bliðe-mod bealuleas kyng [D. bealeleas].

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., C. 227. Þay in balelez blod þer blenden her handez.

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1869.  Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), III. 30. Looked back to the happy days of the baleless king.

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