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Kneelest vs Kneeless - What's the difference?

kneelest | kneeless |

As a verb kneelest

is archaic second-person singular of kneel.

As an adjective kneeless is

without knees.

kneelest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (kneel)

    • kneel

    English

    Verb

  • (lb) To stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.
  • *
    • When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.

    Derived terms

    * kneeler

    Related terms

    * genuflect * kneel down

    References

    * * English irregular verbs

    kneeless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without knees.