haveles

Middle English

Etymology

haven +‎ -les

Adjective

haveles

1. having little or nothing
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     As povere as Job, and loveles,
     Outaken on, for haveles

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• “haveless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.