kingship

For a time, indeed, Johann Orth attempted to maintain a kind of kingship, on the strength of his superior pedigree.

The next five years were employed by this precocious genius of barbarian craft in strengthening his kingship among the Salians.

The doctrine of the sovereignty of God is but the intellectual reflection of kingship and the belief that the king can do no evil.

Long before that, the kingship had itself become but a name, a show.