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
As a statesman and ruler, he would understand that Urim's passing was incidental to a change in power and one of the hazards of kinghood.
From Warrior of the Dawn by Howard Browne
He admits the story, but depicts Arthur as the flower of kinghood, ‘Rex quondam rexque futurus.’
From The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 by William Ralph Inge
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 John Addington Symonds
But how many more fine old traditions will the extremely sentimental traveller miss in the Italians over whom that little jostled prince in the landau will have come into his kinghood?
From Italian Hours by Henry James
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