lordless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of lordless
before 900; Middle English lordles, Old English hlāfordlēas. See lord, -less
Example Sentences
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By my faith," said Robert, "I will not leave ye lordless.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by M. (François) Guizot
For the present, at least, I am a lordless man.
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
Did I not live even as a lordless man the while that Ethelred remained upon the throne?
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
And her, left lordless by that ended fray, Our lord beholding loved, and hailed, and crowned Queen.
From Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
My heart was lordless when with trumpet blare And multitudinous song you came, its king, The banners of my thought your ensign bear, You fill my soul with glory, like the spring.
From Love's Comedy by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
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