lordless

[ lawrd-lis ]

adjective

1. having no lord.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lordless¹

before 900; Middle English lordles, Old English hlāfordlēas. See lord, -less

Example Sentences

As a spark of fire consumeth summer's parched and sapless wood, Kuru's lordless, lifeless forces shall be angry Arjun's food!

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The fate of these lordless communities and of their waste was still trembling in the balance when King Harold fell.

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In the lordless villages economic forces of an easily imaginable kind will make for this end.

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The permanent lordless state was probably altogether foreign to the conditions of the Heroic Age.

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