kingcraft
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kingcraft
Example Sentences
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Watch the Throne, Jay-Z and 's blockbuster collaboration, makes overt reference to kingcraft, nodding to the exalted status of its makers and invoking the "p-p-p paranoia" that comes with power.
From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2011
In the 1820s and '30s, there was the Workingmen's Movement, pitted against the evils of "kingcraft, priestcraft and lawyercraft."
From Time Magazine Archive
"The end and purpose of all kingcraft," said Beowulf.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
But he would not accept them, and continued to play his game of kingcraft.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John
We wish to emphasize, again, that Bismarck’s conception of kingcraft was no mere despotic thing.
From Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck by Greusel, John Hubert
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