guardianless

English

Etymology

From guardian +‎ -less.

Adjective

guardianless (not comparable)

1. Without a guardian.
   • c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:

     […] I would ſooner leaue my lady ſingled in a Bordello, then in the Genoa pallace, […] Surfet would cloake intemperate appetite, / Make the ſoule ſent the rotten breath of luſt, / When in an Italian laſciuious Pallace, a Lady gardianleſſe.

Further reading

• “guardianless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.