a. Without a champion.

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1838.  Mrs. Gore, Mary Raymond, etc. II. 291. A lone woman am I, it is true,—and now, alas! championless; yet shall not my fair fame be aspersed at the captious prompting of thy petulance.

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1864.  Burton, Scot Abr., I. i. 51. Louis XI. is by no means championless.

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