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kingmaker
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Kingmaker is a board game created by Andrew McNeil . It was first produced in the UK by PhilMar Ltd. in 1974. The second edition was produced by Avalon Hill in the United States in 1975. This version was somewhat different from the original, as it refined ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also king-maker , 1590s, originally in reference to the 15c. Earl of Warwick.
WordNet
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n. an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence; "the Earl of Warwick was the first kingmaker"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone who has strong influence over the choice of a leader.
Usage examples of kingmaker.
Kingmaker rumbled like buried thunder, and Kingmaker was always impressed by his own eloquence.
Paul presented Brooks with credentials and directives from Kingmaker, and Brooks accepted them.
Paul had forged them during the passage, though he could have gotten real ones from Kingmaker himself or through Foreman.
My master Kingmaker has employed such men before, and it is not for me to question it.
All were assembled, and all were on their feet now: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Pottscamp, Northprophet, Dobowski, Quickcrafter, Haddad, Chezem, Treva, Goldgopher, Chu, Sykes, Fabelo, Dulldoggle, Potter, Landmaster, Salver, Stoimenof, all the high dukes of Astrobe, half a dozen former world presidents, the tall scientists and mind-men, the world designers.
While Kingmaker talked, Thomas entertained in the cellar of his mind one of those passage dreams such as both he and Paul had experienced on the transit between Earth and Astrobe.
Cosmos Kingmaker was a great golden spider, for all that he wore the head of a lion in the dream.
The Big Ones had Thomas up on the carpet the next morning: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Chezem, Pottseamp, Wot-tle, Northprophet.
Disaster followed and the Earl of Warwick turned Kingmaker once again.
How could he be a kingmaker if there was not any need to make a king and keep him on the throne?
The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485 Kendall, Paul Murray, Richard 111 Kendall, Paul Murray, Warwick, the Kingmaker Lamb, V.
The Betrayal of Richard 111 MacGibbon, David, Elizabeth Woodville Oman, Charles, Warwick the Kingmaker Ramsay, J.
There were a thousand ways to die in the Amazon, but few as exquisitely painful as the kingmaker beetle.
Thousands of five-inch-long kingmaker beetles, their iridescent carapaces adding a surreally colored and ever-shifting surface to everything inside the room.
Vargas and the dozens of kingmaker beetles scrabbling out of the broken tower.