单词 | unkinged |
释义 | unkingedadj.1n. Deprived of the position, authority, or character of a king; removed from power, deposed. Also occasionally as n.: a person who has been deposed or removed from the position of king. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [adjective] > deposed as monarch > deposed as king unkinged1608 1608 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 210 God saue King Harry, vnkingd Richard sayes. 1661 J. Boys tr. Claudian In Rufinum in tr. Virgil Æneas his Descent 117 Here the poorest Commoner The unking'd King doth justle. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. i. viii. 195 We know not if it is to king Stork, or king Log, or the unkinged king that was sent a grazing. 1818 H. H. Milman Samor xi. 196 Then gaz'd the unking'd, then cried out the fallen. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. iv. 29 There must thou enter, naked, all unking'd. 1944 C. E. Merriam Public & Private Govt. ii. 23 Pictures of unkinged kings, of deflated demagogues, of outmoded statesmen. 2013 P. Bickley & J. Stevens Essent. Shakespeare x. 221 A vision of the ‘unkinged’ which would take on a brutal reality..with the execution of Charles I. 2016 H. Keramatfar & E. Shabani in A. Salami & M. Beyad Fund. Shakespeare 94 This unkinged King now faces some bitter realisations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). unkingedadj.2 rare. That has not (yet) been made a king. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [adjective] > untitled or not invested with dignity > specific unkinged1846 1846 Satirist 31 May 171/1 Her Majesty of England has a disinclination to visit France while her spouse remains an unkinged consort. 1993 R. A. Gardner in C. E. Schaefer & D. M. Cangelosi Play Therapy Techniques xxi. 257 The noncrown side of the checker faces downward for the unkinged checkers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1n.1608adj.21846 |
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