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  • adjective Having no sceptre; without authority; powerless.

Etymologies

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sceptre +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Crownless and sceptreless, while yet their magic might

    Transformations A. E. 1913

  • Love and Death, is made sceptreless and discrowned!

    Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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