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unkingdom

unkingdom verb: to deprive (a monarch) of a kingdom.

Verb

unkingdom (third-person singular simple present unkingdoms, present participle unkingdoming, simple past and past participle unkingdomed)

  1. To deprive (a monarch) of a kingdom.
    • “So I am he, who in yet beardless years
      Did plot the ways to unkingdom Maxtala;1855, Alice Cary, “The Maiden of Tlascala”, in Poems, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 360
    • Shadows of things and veils of ages riven
      Are as men’s kings unkingdomed in thy sight.1871, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Mater Triumphalis”, in Songs before Sunrise, London: F.S. Ellis, page 174

Forms of unkingdom

third-person singular presentunkingdoms
present participleunkingdoming
past participleunkingdomed
pastunkingdomed

Origin of unkingdom

From un- + kingdom.

Questions about unkingdom

What does unkingdom mean?
Unkingdom means to deprive (a monarch) of a kingdom.
What part of speech is unkingdom?
Unkingdom is a verb.
What is the past tense of unkingdom?
The past tense of unkingdom is unkingdomed.

Words near unkingdom in the dictionary

  1. unkindness
  2. unkindnesses
  3. unkindred
  4. unkindredly
  5. unking
  6. unkingdom
  7. unkinged
  8. unkinging
  9. unkingliest
  10. unkinglike
  11. unkingliness

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