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Chiefness vs Chiefless - What's the difference?

chiefness | chiefless |

As a noun chiefness

is quality of being chief, or principal.

As an adjective chiefless is

without a chief; leaderless.

chiefness

English

Noun

(-)
  • Quality of being chief, or principal.

    • 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