throneless
adjEtymology From throne + -less.
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Without a throne.
- I wrung the promise of that bill from His Majesty whilst he was still a throneless wanderer.1923, Rafael Sabatini, chapter 3, in Fortune's Fool:
- 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.
- Derived terms
- thronelessness