Meaning of kingless | Babel Free

Definitions

Without a king.

not-comparable

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Examples

“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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