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kinghood|ˈkɪŋhʊd|
[f. king n. + -hood.]
Kingship; the rank, authority, or office of king; kingly spirit or character.
c1350Will. Palerne 4059 King, i þe coniure..bi alle þe kud customes to kinghod þat longes. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 471 Crist koude ensaumple kynghod. 1440J. Shirley Dethe K. James (1818) 12, I am undir youre kynghood and yn the service of Love. 1656S. H. Gold. Law 69 What did any of their aforesaid Kings..for their King-hoods? 1837Carlyle Misc. Ess., Mirabeau (1888) V. 211 This gift was precisely the kinghood of the man, and did itself stamp him as a leader of men. 1875Tennyson Q. Mary iv. i, Your father was a man Of such colossal kinghood. |