masterless

[ma-ster-lis]

adjective

1. not having a master.

Example Sentences

After stealing a letter containing secret information early in the game, the player’s ronin, or masterless samurai, must decide which faction most deserves it.

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Framed as the killer, Ogami is ordered to commit hara-kiri, but instead takes to the countryside as a ronin — a masterless samurai — seeking revenge.

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It seems unlikely that Christie will be content to continue wandering the earth like a masterless samurai, a ronin.

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Alejandro is cousin both to the masterless swordsmen of Japanese cinema and to the lone gunslingers of the postwar Hollywood western.

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But it was taken by fell men whom the Enemy in his first strength had dominated, and who wandered homeless and masterless after his fall.

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