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- adjective Having no
sceptre ; deprived of a sceptre.
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Examples
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Up with our banner bright, etc. Empire unsceptred! what foe shall assail thee,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various
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The presiding genius of the place, the unsceptred Queen of this little realm was before me -- Faed's Evangeline!
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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An unsceptred despot bidden take a fair woman's eyes into his breast, saw and shrank.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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An unsceptred despot bidden take a fair woman's eyes into his breast, saw and shrank.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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An unsceptred despot bidden take a fair woman's eyes into his breast, saw and shrank.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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It was only at the foot of his own table, after ladling out and serving around the stewed oysters "hot and hot," that the commodore, rubbing his hands, and smiling until his great face was as grotesque as a nutcracker's, announced that Miss Nancy Skamp was turned out of office -- yea, discrowned, unsceptred, dethroned, and that Harry Barnwell reigned in her stead.
The Missing Bride Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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Up with our banner bright, etc. Empire unsceptred! what foe shall assail thee,
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 07: Songs of Many Seasons Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Up with our banner bright, etc. Empire unsceptred! what foe shall assail thee,
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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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! "
In the Arena Stories of Political Life Booth Tarkington 1907
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