throneless

== English == === Etymology === From throne +‎ -less. === Adjective === throneless (not comparable) Without a throne. 2003, Edward Slingerland, Confucius Analects, with selections from traditional commentaries, Indianapolis: Hackett, p. 230, In later myth, Confucius is often referred to as the "throneless ruler," the idea being that, if only he had been given a position of authority, he would have re-established the universal peace and order of the early Zhou.