单词 | king-deposing |
释义 | > as lemmasking-deposing (b) With verbal nouns and present participles forming adjectives and nouns, as king-becoming, king-deposing, king-hating, king-murdering, etc.See also king-killing n., king-killing adj., kingmaking n. ΚΠ 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 153 The King-maiming Kinglings of Bezec. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 92 The King-becoming Graces,..I haue no rellish of them. View more context for this quotation a1669 H. Foulis Hist. Romish Treasons (1671) ii. iv. 102 These mutterers of King-murthering. 1699 S.Young Conf. between Suffering Saints 19 The now call'd Church of England, the perjur'd King-dethroning Church. a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 311 A Persecution..From the traduc'd, King-murd'ring Sect. c1712 W. Tisdal Let. in J. Stevenson Two Cent. Life in Down (1920) xv. 399 Milton still stuck to his King-Deposing and King-Killing Doctrine. 1730 Compl. Coll. State-trials (ed. 2) I. 603/1 [Sir Robert Berkeley..affirmed that] the Law knows no such King-yokeing Policy. 1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 57 That were indeed a king-ennobling thought. 1855 F. Douglass My Bondage & my Freedom 449 In tyrant-killing, king-hating, people-loving, democratic, christian America. 1919 Motordom Apr. 8/2 Washington, and Putnam, and Paine, and all that immortal king-hating brood. 1994 G. M. Brown Beside Ocean of Time 143 You'll have..blown the ships of the king-murdering French from the face of the ocean. 2012 Time Out N.Y. 12 Jan. 84/2 Kevin Spacey offers to turn our discontented winter into glorious summer in the title role of Shakespeare's king-smearing history. < as lemmas |
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