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unsceptered

unsceptered is the alternative form of unsceptred.

Meaning of unsceptred

Adjective

unsceptred (not comparable)

  1. Having no sceptre; not being an actual monarch (but having comparable qualities).
    • […] 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!1859, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, chapter 1, in Acadia; or, A Month with the Blue Noses, New York: Derby & Jackson, page 25

Origin of unsceptered

From un- + sceptered.

Questions about unsceptered

What is unsceptered the alternative form of?
Unsceptered is the alternative form of unsceptred.

Words near unsceptered in the dictionary

  1. unscent
  2. unscented
  3. unscenting
  4. unscents
  5. unscepter
  6. unsceptered
  7. unsceptering
  8. unscepters
  9. unsceptical
  10. unsceptically
  11. unsceptre

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsceptered (page history and authors); unsceptred (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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