king
noun
a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usually by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people.
kingless
-
a word derived from
king.
Example Sentences
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Like the Puritan “republics” of New England, however, the commonwealth experiment in kingless government held enormous importance for the future American republic and fed many of the ideas that later supported its revolution.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The historian Colin Jones characterises 18th-century Paris as "the kingless city of Enlightenment".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011
The kingless Kingdom of Hungary was entertaining the first royalty to visit it officially since the owl-eyed King of Siam went to Budapest shortly after the War.
From Time Magazine Archive
A yes vote would not only make Franco "Chief of State" for life in a kingless "kingdom," but would give him the legal right to name the king or regent who would succeed him.
From Time Magazine Archive
No one knew his place in this disordered and kingless country.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
