HAPLESS

also HAPLES, HAPLESSE

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ETYMOLOGY
from hap (n.)  (early Middle English from Old Norse happ neut., chance, hap, good luck; the same root is found in Old English ᵹehæp adj., fit, hæpliacuc equal) + -less

EXAMPLE
From: An Alarum Against Usurers
By Thomas Lodge, 1584
Truths Complaint over England.
p. 39