Where does lordless come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

lordless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Without a lord.

"[…] whose sons, from days long before the Conquest, have always desired to go to sea when the cuckoo sang, and to come home again when they were tired of the hail and salt showers, because they could not bear to be landless and lordless men."

From Middle English lordles, loverdles, from Old English hlāfordlēas, equivalent to lord + -less.

lordlessness

masterless

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