Unsceptred
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unsceptred is an adjective meaning Having no sceptre; not being an actual monarch (but having comparable qualities).
Meaning
Having no sceptre; not being an actual monarch (but having comparable qualities).
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of unsceptre
Example Sentences
[…] our eyes behold The plain unsceptred king, the man of gold, The thrice illustrious threefold millionnaire;
[…] here one can see costly engravings of Landseer’s fine pictures, and indeed whole portfolios of English art. But of all the pictures there was one, the most touching, the most suggestive! The presiding genius of the place, the unsceptred Queen of this little realm before me—Faed’s Evangeline!
“[…] For the names I see written above me to-day on the immemorial canopy of heaven begin with that of the spotless knight, the unsceptred and uncrowned king, the godlike and immaculate”—(here he turned suddenly, ran to the front of the stage, and, with outstretched fist shaking violently over our heads, thundered at the full power of his lungs): “GEORGE WASHINGTON!”
Word Forms
- unsceptered
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include listless, nerveless, unsceptered, be-sceptred, uncrowned, unprinced.
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