different between championess vs championless

English

From champion +? -ess.

championess (plural championesses)

(archaic) A female champion.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
  Then laid the noble Championesse strong hond / Upon th'enchaunter which had her distrest / So sore, and with foule outrages opprest.

champion +? -less

championless (not comparable)

Without a champion.
- 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...

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