Definition of "kinghood" []

• The quality of being a king. (noun)
• The state of being a king. (noun)

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• "With a pike head he prizes off the golden circlet of kinghood and strides towards Henry Tudor, kneels in the mud, and offers him the crown of England."
• "In Louis, surely, if in any one, the majesty of kinghood is represented."
• "‘But apathy, and serfdom, and kinghood, and dominion, drain the fountain of its living springs, and the soul becomes like the plummet of lead, whose only tendency is to hide itself in subaqueous mud and unsavoury slush.’"