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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
kingship
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among other things, kingship functioned as a kind of conduit through which man was linked to his gods.
▪ Ecgberht may have received wide support in Kent and can not necessarily be regarded as wholly dependent on Offa for his kingship.
▪ Ever fair-spoken, Malekith said that he desired the kingship not for himself but in honour of the memory of his father.
▪ Joseph's view of kingship had no particular originality.
▪ The innovative character of Capetian kingship is unmistakable.
▪ The principle of sacred kingship continues well into later Western history.
▪ The robe is a richly patterned 7-by-10-foot cotton cloth whose abstract symbols represent the powers and obligations of kingship.
▪ Together Mummolus and Desiderius elevated Gundovald to the kingship at Brives-la-Gaillarde.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kingship

Kingship \King"ship\, n. The state, office, or dignity of a king; royalty.
--Landor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kingship

early 14c., from king + -ship.

Wiktionary
kingship

n. 1 The dignity, rank or office of a king; the state of being a king. 2 A monarchy. 3 The territory or dominion of a king; a kingdom.

WordNet
kingship

n. the dignity or rank or position of a king

Usage examples of "kingship".

Eurymachus tries to blame all their misdeeds on Antinous, admitting that the real issue was the kingship after all.

Tarzan had sustained his fitness to the kingship of the apes of Kerchak.

And there is no one more blackhearted and surly than an ex-king, or a person who harbors, in the dark channels of his body, the memory of kingship.

The man who occupied the throne wore over his heavy black wig a diadem with the twin uraeus serpents of Cushite kingship.

Nor are we only kings and the freest of all men, but also priests for ever, a dignity far higher than kingship, because by that priesthood we are worthy to appear before God, to pray for others, and to teach one another mutually the things which are of God.

However, the Maccabees themselves then impudently assumed the titles of both the kingship and high priesthood, to which they were not by descent entitled, and there were perpetrated within that family a numbor of ugly betrayals and murders in subsequent struggles for the inheritance.

We can only understand the place of the kingship in Shilluk society when we realise that it is not the individual at any time reigning who is king, but Nyikang who is the medium between man and God, and is believed in some way to participate in God as he does in the king.

The king must be killed to save the kingship and with it the whole Shilluk people.

Kingships emerged in societies that were changing rapidly and were very competitive.

When the Isles were great a thousand years ago, when the kingship meant something, those kings were men of Haft!

It was sleeveless and came only to midthigh, so that his bands of kingship would not be hidden.

Conan was a gigantic barbarian adventurer who roistered and brawled and battled his way across half the prehistoric world to rise at last to the kingship of a mighty realm.

Doubtless'-he allowed himself a hint of sarcasm-'he means to take advantage of your weakness-I mean your need-to crush your kingship, enslave the Cares, and capture all Imagery for himself.

To utilize a quaint colloquialism, what good is it to be king of the hill if there's no one around to challenge your kingship?

For he coveted Arda and all that was in it, desiring the kingship of Manwë and dominion over the realms of his peers.