Meanings
adjectivegovernless (not comparable)
- not comparablerareWithout government; ungoverned; anarchic.
Though the majority of your community's members have no intention of acting up, to host a governless society is to truly tempt fate.
2011, Deborah Ng, Online Community Management For Dummies (page 75)1 more example
Oh! the heart is a free and a governless thing! / Hence strangely and madly it often will cling / To a glance of the eye, and a smile of the cheek, […]
1854, Mary Bayard Clarke, Wood-notes; Or, Carolina Carols, page 86
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