throneless

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English

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Etymology

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From throne +‎ -less.

Adjective

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throneless (not comparable)

  1. Without a throne.
    • 1923, Rafael Sabatini, chapter 3, in Fortune's Fool[1]:
      I wrung the promise of that bill from His Majesty whilst he was still a throneless wanderer.
    • 2003, Edward Slingerland, Confucius Analects, with selections from traditional commentaries, Indianapolis: Hackett, p. 230,
      In later myth, Confucius is often referred to as the "throneless ruler," the idea being that, if only he had been given a position of authority, he would have re-established the universal peace and order of the early Zhou.