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stateless, a.|ˈsteɪtlɪs|
[f. state n. + -less.]
a. Without a state or political community.
b. Destitute of state or ceremonial dignity.
† stateless state: a state not worthy of the name.
1609F. Grevil Mustapha v. iij, What soule then..Would hold a life of such a statelesse State. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xl. §5. 346 The Northumbrians expulsing their stateless Hericus..so pacified the King, that [etc.]. 1638Drummond of Hawthornden Irene Wks. (1711) 169 Cast not your selves into a voluntary Servitude; turn not your selves into a stateless State. 1843D. Jerrold Punch's Lett. Ded., Wks. 1864 III. 450 Ye who have..with kindly conjurations given state to stateless Kings. 1902B. Kidd Princ. Western Civiliz. x. 343 In the section of which England is the centre we catch sight..of a conception round which a practical system of world-politics..is actually slowly beginning to centre; namely, the ideal of a stateless competition of all the individuals of every land.
c. Not being a citizen of any state; having no nationality.
1930E. F. W. Gey van Pittius Nationality within Brit. Commonw. xiii. 133 A person of dual nationality can at least enter more than one country and seek protection from both while abroad. Not so the stateless person. 1957C. Day Lewis Pegasus 36 He travels on, not only blind But a stateless person. 1968J. Lock Lady Policeman xv. 132 The alien—a forty-seven year old Jugoslav-born stateless person—looked at her blankly. 1981G. Markstein Ultimate Issue 153 In the absence of valid documents, we must grade a suspect stateless.
Hence ˈstatelessness, the condition of having no nationality.
1930E. F. W. Gey van Pittius Nationality within Brit. Commonw. xiii. 132 In case of statelessness, which is the reverse of dual nationality or multiple nationality, an unfortunate individual is placed in the unenviable position of being without any country at all. 1959Times 24 Mar. 9/5 The fundamental theory that statelessness should be overcome or reduced by the application of the principle of jus soli (the law of the soil) under which the nationality of a State is acquired by birth on its territory. 1963H. Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem x. 155 This was one of the few cases in which statelessness turned out to be an asset. |