a. Now rare. [f. FRAUD sb. + -LESS.] Free from fraud.

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1580.  H. Gifford, Gilloflowers (1815), 103.

        And I which saw such perfect shewes,
  Of fraudlesse fayth in you appeare,
Did yeelde myselfe to Cupids Lawes,
  And shewde likewise a merrie cheere.

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1635.  J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Banish’d Virg., 64. We have promised you to leave off the wicked life which hitherunto we have led, and that surely with a sincere and fraudlesse intention.

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1652.  Benlowes, Theoph., XII. xii.

        Such Scramblers at the Shearing Feasts, I shun;
Forgetting, and forgotten, run
To fraudlesse Swains. I have a Friend compliant won.

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  Hence Fraudlessly adv., Fraudlessness.

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1848.  in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.

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