crownlessness en · NOUN
Etymology
From crownless + -ness.
Meanings
- (uncountable) The state of lacking a crown.
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(figuratively, uncountable) A state of defeat, or of not sharing in victory.
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, […]
1874, Isthmian Ode VII, translated by Ernest Myers, The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, page 166: