different between kingless vs kindless

English

Etymology

king +? -less

Adjective

kingless (not comparable)

1. Without a king.
   • 1892, Alfred Tennyson, The Foresters, Act IV, Scene 1, in The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, edited by William J. Rolfe, Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1892, p. 139, [1]

     I have been away from England all these years, / Heading the holy war against the Moslem, / While thou and others in our kingless realms / Were fighting underhand unholy wars / Against your lawful King.

   • 1999, Simon Schama, Rembrandt's Eyes, New York: Knopf, Part Five, Chapter 11, p. 566,

     Now that Charles I had been beheaded, Cromwell wanted a guarantee from the States General not only that they would never countenance any kind of support for a Stuart restoration in England, but also that no Prince of Orange (married into the British dynasty) would ever again become Stadholder and thus be in a position to threaten a kingless Britain.

Translations

Anagrams

• Keslings

English

Etymology

From kind (“inherent quality, nature”) +? less.

Adjective

kindless (comparative more kindless, superlative most kindless)

1. (archaic, literary) Destitute of kindness; unnatural.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2,^[1]

     Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!

   • 1771, Hugh Kelly, Clementina, London: Edward & Charles Dilly and T. Cadell, Act III, p. ,^[2]

     Kneel not to me, ungrateful, kindless girl!

     I have been prostrate at your feet in vain.

   • 1902, E. W. Hornung, The Shadow of the Rope, New York: Scribner, Chapter 10, pp. 111-112,^[3]

     The Normanthorpe roses, famous throughout the north of England, were as yet barely budding in the kindless wind […]

Antonyms

• kindful