deedless

Meaning

Adjective

• Of real property whose owners' claim is not evidence by formal record of ownership, such as a deed.
• Helpless; not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.

Origin

• deed + -less; obsolete sense is from earlier dadless, probably from Old Norse dáðlauss. Cognate with Danish dådløs, Swedish dådlös.