governless

English

Etymology

govern +‎ -less

Adjective

governless (not comparable)

1. (rare) Without government; ungoverned; anarchic.
   • 1854, Mary Bayard Clarke, Wood-notes; Or, Carolina Carols, page 86:

     Oh! the heart is a free and a governless thing! / Hence strangely and madly it often will cling / To a glance of the eye, and a smile of the cheek, […]

   • 2011, Deborah Ng, Online Community Management For Dummies (page 75)

     Though the majority of your community's members have no intention of acting up, to host a governless society is to truly tempt fate.