crownlessness

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Etymology[edit]

From crownless +‎ -ness.

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crownlessness (uncountable)

  1. The state of lacking a crown.
  2. (figuratively) A state of defeat, or of not sharing in victory.
    • 1874, Isthmian Ode VII, translated by Ernest Myers, The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, page 166:
      Yea since we are come forth from our sore troubles let us not fall into the desolation of crownlessness, neither nurse our griefs; but having ease from our ills that are past mending, we will set some pleasant thing before the people, […]

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