championless
English
Etymology
champion + -less
Adjective
championless (not comparable)
- Without a champion.
- 1884, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
- Lone in a far-off land, / With empty heart and treasure lost, / Poor, championless, and fortune-crost, She stretches out her hand...
- 1921, Eleanor Farjeon, Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
- And while men spoke betwixt wrath and mockery of the Rusty Knight, I loved more dearly that champion who was doing so ill so bravely for a championless lady...
- 1884, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round