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- noun Plural form of
kingdom .
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Examples
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Another component of the health of kingdoms is sovereignty.
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I love the thought of medieval times and living in kingdoms ruled by benevolent kings who bring joy & abundance to their communities.
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The modernized Turkish state under Kemal Ataturk, while it has no political relationship to the Arab kingdoms, is the hope of Islam in our strange, bizarre world of today.
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'Have I naught to do but to win kingdoms to make gifts of?'
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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The fact that the repairing of the evils caused to Judah and Israel by all four kingdoms is spoken of here, proves that the exhaustive fulfilment is yet future, and only the earnest of it given in the overthrow of the two world powers which up to Zechariah's time had "scattered" Judah
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Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river -- All the petty kingdoms between the Euphrates and the Mediterranean were tributary to him.
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Jutish and Saxon conquests in the south, and tell us nothing at all about the origin of the main English kingdoms in the north.
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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And whence come preferments in kingdoms, to places of power and trust in them?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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The administration of both these kingdoms is put into the hands of the Messiah, and to him, doubtless, the prophet here hears witness, and to his kingdom, speaking of it as present, because sure; and because, as the eternal Word, even before his incarnation he was Lord of all.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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The case of these sister kingdoms is compared, and judgment given upon the comparison, that of the two Judah was the worse (v. 11):
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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