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kingless, a.|ˈkɪŋlɪs|
[f. king n. + -less; cf. ON. konunglauss, G. königlos.]
Without a king; having no king.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 2289 Þe king lai ded þar, Þo was þis lond kingles. a1300Cursor M. 9344 Kyngles sal yee be fra þat dai. c1450Merlin 24 Sir, we ben Kyngeles, for he that we haue is naught worth. 1683Williams Answ. Hunt's Postscr. 17, I find no approbation of such as the Kingless Keepers of the Liberty of England. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxxxvi, They fight for freedom who were never free; A Kingless people for a nerveless state. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 353 The kingless Turkoman hordes say of themselves ‘We are a people without a head’.
Hence ˈkinglessness.
1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. i. 7 Open ‘kinglessness’, what we call anarchy,..is everywhere the order of the day. |