crownlessness
nounEtymology From crownless + -ness.
1
The state of lacking a crown.
2
Figuratively A state of defeat, or of not sharing in victory.
- 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, […]1874, Isthmian Ode VII, translated by Ernest Myers, The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, page 166: