a. [f. LEADER1 + -LESS.] Having no leader; without a leader.
1839. Northern Liberator, 11 May, 3/1. This they have done, contemptible, leaderless, talentless.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., iv. 284. Some men must … leaderless go forth unto the flame.
1878. Lecky, Eng. in 18th C. (1883), I. 326. The party … had been left leaderless by the deaths of Stanhope and Sunderland.
1894. Times, 15 Jan., 14/4. The would-be defenders of Paris were little more than a leaderless mob of armed men.
