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
As Britain's top labor leader, Vic Feather must try to hold sway over 155 fiercely independent unions that often prefer to behave, as one union boss put it, like "baronies in a kingless kingdom."
From Time Magazine Archive
By their penmanship the kingless kingdom of Hungary joined the three-way pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan on Sept.
From Time Magazine Archive
No one knew his place in this disordered and kingless country.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
