lordless

Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty, theatre of manhood suffrage, kingless and lordless land of Protection, Republicanism, and the realized Radical Programme, where all the black chattel slaves were turned into wage-slaves (like my father's white fellows) at a cost of 800,000 lives and wealth incalculable.

Nor can Koreans forget the murder of Queen Min (Empress Myeongseong), committed inside Gyeongbok Palace by a group of Japanese elites and so-called ronin, or lordless samurai aristocrats.

This perspective informs Barth's final writing on the powers, the section on the "lordless powers" in The Christian Life.

paet daer aenig mon wordum ne worcum waere ne braece, ne purh inwitsearo aefre gemaenden, deah hie hira beaggyfan banan folgedon deodenlease, pa him swa gepearfod waes (Beowulf, 1099b-1103) [that no man there would break the treaty by words or deeds, nor because of enmity ever mention [it], though they, lordless, followed their ring-givers slayer, as they thus had to]