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How to use kingship in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Kingship means the dignity, rank, or office of a king; the state of being a king. Example: “The traditional world knew divine kingship.”

Examples of kingship by meaning

nounThe dignity, rank, or office of a king; the state of being a king.

  • The traditional world knew divine kingship.1995, Julius Evola, “The Beginning”, in Guido Stucco, transl., Revolt against the Modern World, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions...

More sentences with kingship

  • Were it not for the fact of my kingship, I would blush at your admirational effusions.2013 January 24, Ethard Wendel Van Stee, The Boy Who Would Be King: And Six More Plays, iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry admirational
  • After the exile, God's kingship changed from more henotheistic expressions to monotheistic ones.2012, M. David Litwa, We Are Being Transformed, Walter de Gruyter, page 245. From the entry henotheistic
  • By the eleventh century, sacred kingship within the west was separated from the hierarchies of church rule.2009, Christian Frost, Time, Space, and Order: The Making of Medieval Salisbury, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry investiture
  • Brutal compulsion was the necessary accompaniment of the large-scale organization and the extensive order introduced by kingship.1967, Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine, Harcourt, Brace & World, →ISBN, page 184. From the entry rabid
  • On the first Friday morning of his kingship he went into the kitchen and called for his royal chef.2011, Marilyn Price, Grandma's Cookies, page 7. From the entry royal
  • When Inanna returns she finds that Dumuzi has not been lamenting her but has been acting high and mighty in his seat of kingship.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry high and mighty
  • Civilization is, through the numinosity of divine kingship, the mediation between the impossible heights of the gods and the terrifying depths of the underworld.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry numinosity
  • It does not defy death and futurity, for a doubt of its kingship over them never overflushed the majestic havir of its serene countenance.1902, James Russell Lowell, Early Prose Writings of James Russell Lowell, page 164. From the entry overflush
  • Taken together, Henry I's reforms transformed medieval government from an itinerant and often poorly organised household into a highly sophisticated administrative kingship based on permanent, static departments.2021, Tracy Borman, Crown and Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II, Grove Atlantic…. From the entry pipe roll
  • To study, therefore, the turbulent processes that led to the development of administrative kingship, to the proto-bureaucratization of the royal court, is to study the medieval state.2002 Marta Van Landingham - Transforming the State: king, court and political culture in the realms of Aragon (1213-1387). From the entry administrative kingship

Meaning of kingship

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

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Questions about kingship in a sentence

How do you use kingship in a sentence?
Kingship is used as a noun. For example: “The traditional world knew divine kingship.”
What is a short sentence with kingship?
“The traditional world knew divine kingship.”
What does kingship mean?
Kingship means the dignity, rank, or office of a king; the state of being a king.

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