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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

governless en · ADJ

Etymology

From govern + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Without government; ungoverned; anarchic.
    • Though the majority of your community's members have no intention of acting up, to host a governless society is to truly tempt fate. 2011, Deborah Ng, Online Community Management For Dummies (page 75)
    • Oh! the heart is a free and a governless thing! / Hence strangely and madly it often will cling / To a glance of the eye, and a smile of the cheek, […] 1854, Mary Bayard Clarke, Wood-notes; Or, Carolina Carols, page 86: