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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Examples
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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
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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
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Nor have we yet reached the limits of Olynthian expansion; there are their neighbours to be thought of — the kingless or independent
Hellenica 2007
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Of kingless thrones, which Earth did in her heart create.
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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
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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
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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
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-- 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
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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
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Shall wrap in lasting night heaven's kingless throne.
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