Unsceptred
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of unsceptre form-of, participle, past
- 1 Having no sceptre; not being an actual monarch (but having comparable qualities). not-comparable
"[…] 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!"
Example
More examples"[…] 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!"
Etymology
From un- + sceptred.
From unsceptre + -ed.
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