a. Sc. (and north.) ? Obs. [f. WITE sb.2 + -LESS.] Blameless.
1560. Rolland, Seven Sages (Bann. Club), 18. Scho was wyteless, howbeit storme thame opprest.
c. 1575. Diurn. Occurr. (Bann. Club), 240. Wyteles of the halding thairof.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Aug., 136. Ne can Willye wite the witelesse herdgroome.
1617. in A. I. Ritchie, Churches St. Baldred (1883), 163. Alexander Daviesone did draw his quhinger also, and so suld not be altogidder wytless.
1721. Kelly, Sc. Prov., 202. If all be well, I’s be wyteless.
1737. Ramsay, Sc. Prov. (1750), 102. They wyte you and you no wytless.
