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Championess vs Championless - What's the difference?

championess | championless |

As a noun championess

is a female champion.

As an adjective championless is

without a champion.

championess

English

Noun

(es)
  • (archaic) A female champion.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:
  • *:Then laid the noble Championesse strong hond / Upon th'enchaunter which had her distrest / So sore, and with foule outrages opprest.

    • championless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a champion.
  • * 1884 , Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
    • Lone in a far-off land, / With empty heart and treasure lost, / Poor, championless , and fortune-crost, She stretches out her hand...
  • * 1921 , Eleanor Farjeon, Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
    • And while men spoke betwixt wrath and mockery of the Rusty Knight, I loved more dearly that champion who was doing so ill so bravely for a championless lady...