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matchless

The origin and history of matchless.

Etymology

Formed from match and -less, modelled on, or partly a continuation of, Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), itself equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”) and Danish mageløs (“matchless”).

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