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lordless, a.|ˈlɔːdlɪs|
[OE. hláfordléas, f. hláford lord n. + -léas -less.]
Without a lord; having no lord. Of a woman: Husbandless.
Beowulf (Z.) 2934 Oððæt hi oð-eodon earfoðlice in hrefnes holt hlaford-lease. c1290Beket 678 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 126 Ase men þat weren louerdlese—heo nusten ȝwat a-bide. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 2987 Þou ast ymad..moni child wiþ oute fader, & moni wif louerd les. c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. iii. 489 Hoo is hir lord, or wheder is she lordles? 1643T. Case Serm. in Kerr Covenants & Covenanters (1895) 249 Your diocese [shall be] bishopless and your sees lord⁓less. 1823J. Baillie Collect. Poems 312 An armed band From Moorham's lordless hall. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. iii. 91 The lordless man became a kind of out⁓law. 1868–70Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 137 And many a lordless, troubled land Fell scarce loth to his dreaded hand. |