Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without a king; having no king.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having no king.

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  • adjective Without a king.

Etymologies

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king +‎ -less

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Examples

  • It was being worked by inexpert hands, for the time was something jerky; but it was robbed of its tinny meanness and even majesty by the hugeness of a cavern's roof, as well as by the crashing, swinging march it played -- wild - wonderful -- invented for lawless hours and a kingless people.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • Even though France is currently kingless, ˜The present king of France is bald™ can be used to indicate a proposition.

    Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

  • Nor have we yet reached the limits of Olynthian expansion; there are their neighbours to be thought of — the kingless or independent

    Hellenica 2007

  • Of kingless thrones, which Earth did in her heart create.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • The United States of America -- that motley, multilingual, mongrel, mossbacked republic that had somehow, kingless and causeless, arisen by accident between the Crown Lands and New England.

    Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

  • No dwarven smith had forged a Kingsword since Duncan™s had been buried with him three hundred years before; since Kharas, Duncan™s champion, had hidden his god-forged hammer and rendered the dwarves kingless until it could be found again.

    Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

  • Puritanism, without its King, is _kingless_, anarchic; falls into dislocation, self-collision; staggers, plunges into ever deeper anarchy; King,

    The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • -- New generations grow up which never knew a kingless state.

    The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe Louis Paul B��n��zet 1919

  • And always dreaming of thy long dead princes and of the great Kings of other kingdoms in the olden time thou shalt fail to see the grandeur to which a hurrying jesting people shall attain in that kingless age.

    Time and the Gods Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • Shall wrap in lasting night heaven's kingless throne.

    Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama. 1901

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