archprince
archprince noun: a prince of an especially high rank.
Noun
archprince (plural archprinces)
- A prince of an especially high rank.
- [Y]ea vſed only for a pretence and color to inſinuate into the magnifienge off that magnificall ſeigneorie and Archipiſcopall territorie off Canterburye / and by all means poſsible to vante the preheminenece / and ſupereminence off that princely Archpaſtor and paſtorall Archprince / the firſte...1574, [John Stubbs?], transl., “To the Christian Reader / Peace in Chrsite / and Warre with Antechriſte”, in The Life off the 70. Archbishopp off Canterbury Presentlye Sittinge […], [Zurich]...
- O’Laignen, archprince of Uriell; Connor O’Bryan, prince of the Eonnought of Cashell; Donnell mac Tiernan, prince of the Brenie; and Kearnaghan Gott O’Melaughlyn, young prince of Meath, were all killed this year.1849, John O’Donovan, Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland. […], Dublin: [s.n.], →OCLC, footnote q, page 913, columns 1–2
Examples of archprince in a sentence
- A pistol at his head, then the archprince / Lucifer saw his flight, dilating up / With passion doubly pang’d such flight to see; […]1853, Thomas Hawkins, book III, in The Christiad, London: […] Shaw and Sons, →OCLC, page 102:
- The steward from the folds of his garment produced a metal card and handed it to Park, who read from it the prayer for the archprince and his house.1932, John Gray, Park—a Fantastic Story, Aylesford, Kent: Saint Albert’s Press, published 1966, →OCLC, page 91:
- [S]he [the Queen] calls me back: ‘And tell her to make a pâté, we might be having the archprince to lunch.’1993, Elizabeth Fallaize, “Chantal Chawaf”, in French Women’s Writing: Recent Fiction (Women in Society), Basingstoke, Hampshire...
- Another postwar option discussed by the Austrians and viewed unfavorably by the Germans was the Hetman throne going to a member of the Habsburg house, in particular to Archprince Wilhelm.2007, Mark von Hagen, “The German Occupation of Ukraine 1918”, in War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia...
Forms of archprince
| plural | archprinces |
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Origin of archprince
From arch- + prince.
Questions about archprince
- What does archprince mean?
- Archprince means a prince of an especially high rank.
- How do you use archprince in a sentence?
- A pistol at his head, then the archprince / Lucifer saw his flight, dilating up / With passion doubly pang’d such flight to see; […]
- What part of speech is archprince?
- Archprince is a noun.
- What is the plural of archprince?
- The plural of archprince is archprinces.
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