championless
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]championless (not comparable)
- Without a champion.
- 1886, Harriett Stockall, “"From Love's Ashes"”, in Poems: Second Series:
- 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...