Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of royalty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To cause to cease to be a king.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To remove a
king from power
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Examples
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And doth the man unking; but Dr. Spaeth's interpretation is not the same as mine was years ago, yet indeed, far better.
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893. James Powell Cocke 1947
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One broad-mouthed roysterer on the ground proposed the King's health, and supported the toast by a ballad in which "Great Charles, like Jehovah," was described as merciful and generous to the foes that would unking him and the vipers that would sting him.
The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892
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"Let us give power to our deputies to solicit from our lord the king his consent to the above requests; in case he accords them, to thank him; in case he refuses, to _unking_ him" (_deroiter_).
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Nay, when he had his sword in his hand, his armies about him, and a cause to justify him before God and man, how did he choose to compound himself into nothing! to depose and unking himself by their hard and inhuman conditions!
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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But if a prince shall deign to be familiar, and to converse with those upon whom he might trample, shall his condescension therefore unking him, and his familiarity rob him of his royalty?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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Nay, when he had his sword in his hand, his armies about him, and a cause to justify him before God and man, how did he choose to compound himself into nothing, to depose and unking himself, by their hard, unconscionable, unhuman conditions!
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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However some may call it a fashionable accomplishment and entertainment, it is not for kings, O Lemuel! it is not for kings, to allow themselves that liberty; it is a disparagement to their dignity, and profanes their crown, by confusing the head that wears it; that which for the time unmans them does for the time unking them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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But he there assigns two cases whereby a king may unking himself.
Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II 1698
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Kings cannot give empires, unless they unking themselves.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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£15 for a part worn fitted. unking away £30k on a new car needs shot with sh
Army Rumour Service 2010
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