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
It was the day of his triumph, and a fitting time to acknowledge his kinghood; and her admission that she thought him the greatest, the most excellent of men did not surprise me.
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert
In Louis, surely, if in any one, the majesty of kinghood is represented.
From The Paris Sketch Book by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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
What happened was this: In the first battle Nuada, king of the Danaans, lost his hand; and, because a king must be blemishless, lost his kinghood too.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
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