kingless

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈkɪŋləs/

Definition of kingless

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Without a king.
    “1892, Alfred Tennyson, The Foresters, Act IV, Scene 1, in The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, edited by William J. Rolfe, Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1892, p. 139, https://archive.org/details/workstennyson12tenn I have been away from England all these years, / Heading the holy war against the Moslem, / While thou and others in our kingless realms / Were fighting underhand unholy wars / Against your lawful King.”
    “Now that Charles I had been beheaded, Cromwell wanted a guarantee from the States General not only that they would never countenance any kind of support for a Stuart restoration in England, but also that no Prince of Orange (married into the British dynasty) would ever again become Stadholder and thus be in a position to threaten a kingless Britain.”
    “Indeed, Graber, a former software engineer, seems most energized when she’s talking about the unique infrastructure for her kingless world.”

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English kingles; by surface analysis, king + -less.

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