Wiktionary
a. Lacking a shepherd.
Usage examples of "shepherdless".
It arose incidentally to the Methodist evangelism, in an effort on the part of Philip William Otterbein, of the German Reformed Church, and Martin Boehm, of the Mennonites, to provide for the shepherdless German-speaking people by an adaptation of the Wesleyan methods.
No longer do the shepherdless dogs drive the flock asunder in a hundred different directions.
Let them go up at once against the city--whether Oxford or London was not clear--for every delay would enable the ungodly to assemble, whereas, if taken by surprise, they would be shepherdless sheep.
The pulpit became the rostrum where the shepherdless masses were entertained with vague essays on such general terms as righteousness, human dignity, light, progress, truth, and right.
Finally he was taken up river for change of air, and, for lack of worthier substitute, the Governor and Captain West constrained me to remain and minister to the shepherdless flock.