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
By the third He asserts His superiority to Solomon, whom the Jews reverenced as the bright, consummate flower of kinghood.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander
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
I have sometimes thought that a symptom of the decay of true kinghood in modern times is the love of monarchs for solitude.
From Castilian Days by Hay, John
In one generation the sons of Tancred passed from the condition of squires in the Norman vale of 295 Cotentin, to kinghood in the richest island of the southern sea.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
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