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Webster 1913 Edition
Throneless
Throne′less
,Adj.
Having no throne.
Definition 2024
throneless
throneless
English
Adjective
throneless (not comparable)
- Without a throne.
- 1923, Rafael Sabatini, Fortune's Fool, Chapter 3,
- 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.
- 1923, Rafael Sabatini, Fortune's Fool, Chapter 3,