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Chiefless vs Chieftess - What's the difference?

chiefless | chieftess |

As an adjective chiefless

is without a chief; leaderless.

As a noun chieftess is

a female form of the word chief or chieftain, meaning the leader of a tribe or clan.

chiefless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Without a chief; leaderless.
  • * 1886 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
    • No great clan held rule there; it was filled and disputed by small septs, and broken remnants, and what they call 'chiefless folks', driven into the wild country about the springs of Forth and Teith by the advance of the Campbells.

    Derived terms

    * chieflessness

    chieftess

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A female form of the word chief or chieftain, meaning the leader of a tribe or clan.
  • *"This heroine was ever after treated by her nation as their deliverer, and made a chieftess in her own right, with the liberty to entail the same honour on her descendents ..." New travels among the Indians of North America , William Fisher, ed., p. 294; attributed to Rev. J. Hubbard. [http://books.google.com/books?id=xcIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA294&dq=chieftess&hl=en&ei=lUkqTMDcDsL58AaetZ3SCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  • *Loved by a Maori Chieftess (title of a 1913 film from New Zealand)