kingless

Inherited from Middle English kingles; by surface analysis, king +‎ -less.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪŋləs/

kingless (not comparable)

1. Without a king.
   • 1892, Alfred Tennyson, The Foresters, Act IV, Scene 1, in The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, edited by William J. Rolfe, Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1892, p. 139, [1]

     I have been away from England all these years, / Heading the holy war against the Moslem, / While thou and others in our kingless realms / Were fighting underhand unholy wars / Against your lawful King.

   • 1999, Simon Schama, Rembrandt's Eyes, New York: Knopf, Part Five, Chapter 11, p. 566:

     Now that Charles I had been beheaded, Cromwell wanted a guarantee from the States General not only that they would never countenance any kind of support for a Stuart restoration in England, but also that no Prince of Orange (married into the British dynasty) would ever again become Stadholder and thus be in a position to threaten a kingless Britain.

   • 2025 May 19, Kate Knibbs, “Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet”, in WIRED‎^[2], archived from the original on 19 May 2025:

     Indeed, Graber, a former software engineer, seems most energized when she’s talking about the unique infrastructure for her kingless world.

• Keslings