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Wretchlessness

Recklessness; heedlessness; neglect. Originally an erroneous form (in Walter Raleigh's HISTORY OF THE WORLD; 1634) of retchlessness, an old variant of recklessness. Thus also wretchless (16th to 18th century), heedless, imprudent; neglectful.
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