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Definition of Lordless
1. Adjective. Having no lord or master. "Harsh punishments for sturdy vagabonds and masterless men"
Definition of Lordless
1. Adjective. Without a lord. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lordless
1. having no lord [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lordless
Literary usage of Lordless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb (1908)
"(c) The lordless Court "We pass now to the bulk of Manorial Boroughs, a heterogeneous
crowd of authorities exhibiting in 1689 every variety of ..."
2. Source-book of English History: Leading Documents, Together with by Guy Carleton Lee (1900)
"For every wound before the hair, and before the sleeve, and beneath the knee,
the "bot" is two parts more. 26. Of lordless Hen From the Laws of ..."
3. A Constitutional History of the House of Lords by Luke Owen Pike (1894)
"... and a lordless man was in evil plight •. Lords, too, might have over-lords,
and the over-lord of all was the king. From one point of view the lord stood ..."
4. The battle and burden of life by James Baldwin Brown (1875)
"In the old times, the days—as we are fond of calling them—of mediaeval darkness
and confusion, a lordless man, one who had no lord to whom he belonged, ..."
5. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1895)
"Again, when the ' kindred ' of a lordless man is ordered to find him a lord, we
need not think of this as of a command addressed to corporations, ..."
6. Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History by William Stubbs (1881)
"And we have ordained, respecting those lordless men of whom no law can be got,
that the kindred be commanded that they domicile him to folk-right, ..."
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