kinghood
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of kinghood
First recorded in 1300–50, kinghood is from the Middle English word kinghod. See king, -hood
Example Sentences
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Shakespeare's Henry V. As Shakesspeare wrote it, The Cronicle History of Henry the fift is an intensely masculine, simple, sanguine drama of kinghood and war.
From Time Magazine Archive
King and Prophet, type of all Divinely right doing, and right claiming, and right proclaiming, kinghood, for ever.
From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by Ruskin, John
Slaves whose souls tell them that they are but slaves, Strike those whose native kinghood all can see: Martyrdom is the stamp of royalty.
From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington
"Of what use is his kinghood if he will not exercise it?"
From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
She preached to Una a personal kinghood, an education in brotherhood and responsible nobility, which took in Una’s job as much as it did government ownership or reading poetry.
From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair
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