kingcraft
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kingcraft
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Watch the Throne, Jay-Z and 's blockbuster collaboration, makes overt reference to kingcraft, nodding to the exalted status of its makers and invoking the "p-p-p paranoia" that comes with power.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2011
In the 1820s and '30s, there was the Workingmen's Movement, pitted against the evils of "kingcraft, priestcraft and lawyercraft."
From Time Magazine Archive
"The end and purpose of all kingcraft," said Beowulf.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
Theirs was the battle—the conquest is ours— Free souls and bodies the death-wrestled prize Won from bad kingcraft, despoiled of its powers, Wrench'd from false priestcraft in spite of its lies!
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
But he would not accept them, and continued to play his game of kingcraft.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
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