kinglike
Americanadjective
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Suharto's kinglike grip on power mesmerizes all his subjects, and so far no one has dared to openly challenge him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hamilton, for example, declared that the new nation should have a kinglike executive to govern as long as he was on "good behavior."
From Time Magazine Archive
Standing before the biggest and the oldest and the most kinglike of them all, I suddenly had an idea.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Who cared whether his nature was foul or kinglike?
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas
Here comes the would-be what I will be … king-like … Tho' scarce at ease; for, save our meshes break, More kinglike he than like to prove a king.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
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