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‖ knez|knɛz|
Also 6–9 knes, 9 knias.
[A Slavonic word: Serbian, Slov. knez, Boh. knĕz, Sorbian knjez, Russ. knjazь:—Old Slav. kŭneṅzĭ, prehistoric a. OTeut. *kuning- king. From Slov., also Romanian knêz, Alban. knez, Magyar kenez.]
A former title among Slavonic nations = ‘prince’; sometimes implying sovereignty, as in Montenegro and formerly in the various Danubian Principalities; sometimes merely rank, as in Russia: often rendered in western langs. by ‘duke’: cf. the title velikiĕ knjazь ‘great prince’, usually englished ‘grand duke’.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 596 The great Knes, or duke of Moscovia. 1642Howell For. Trav. xi. (Arb.) 57 Mosco, the court of the great Knez. 1650― Lett. II. To Rdr., The Knez of them may know, what Prester John Doth with his Camells in the torrid Zone. 1698A. Brand Emb. Muscovy to China 41 These three Women..were the Wives of so many Knezes or Dukes of the Ostiacky. 1710Whitworth Acc. Russia (1758) 31 They are divided into three ranks, the Nobility, called Kneas; the Gentry..and the Peasants. 1847Mrs. A. Kerr Hist. Servia 45 After consultation with the Kneses, the tax was imposed proportionably on the respective districts. Ibid. 409 It was of advantage to the enemies of the Knias, that neither Russia nor the Porte was satisfied with his political administration. |