unsceptred
unsceptred adjective: having no sceptre; not being an actual monarch (but having comparable qualities). Also the simple past and past participle of unsceptre.
Adjective
unsceptred (not comparable)
- 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
- […] our eyes behold
The plain unsceptred king, the man of gold,
The thrice illustrious threefold millionnaire;1862, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Banker’s Dinner”, in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes,, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 248
Also used as
unsceptred is also the simple past and past participle of unsceptre.
Forms of unsceptred
| alternative form | unsceptered |
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Origin of unsceptred
From un- + sceptred.
From unsceptre + -ed.
Questions about unsceptred
- What does unsceptred mean?
- Unsceptred means having no sceptre; not being an actual monarch (but having comparable qualities).
- What part of speech is unsceptred?
- Unsceptred is an adjective.
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