lordless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English lordles, loverdles, from Old English hlāfordlēas, equivalent to lord +‎ -less.

Adjective[edit]

lordless (not comparable)

  1. Without a lord.
    • 1921, Anthony Pryde, chapter XI, in Nightfall‎[1]:
      […] whose sons, from days long before the Conquest, have always desired to go to sea when the cuckoo sang, and to come home again when they were tired of the hail and salt showers, because they could not bear to be landless and lordless men.
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