crownlessness
English
Noun
crownlessness (uncountable)
- The state of lacking a crown.
- (figuratively) A state of defeat, or of not sharing in victory.
- 1874, Isthmian Ode VII, translated by Ernest Myers, The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, page 166:
- Yea since we are come forth from our sore troubles let us not fall into the desolation of crownlessness, neither nurse our griefs; but having ease from our ills that are past mending, we will set some pleasant thing before the people, […]
Translations
the state of lacking a crown
a state of defeat, or of not sharing in victory
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