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单词 kinging
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kingingn.

Brit. /ˈkɪŋɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkɪŋɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: king v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < king v. + -ing suffix1.
An act of making, or the fact of being made, a king. Also (chiefly humorous): the action of ruling as a king.
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1644 S. Rutherford Lex, Rex vi. 33 The enthronization of Bishops is like the Kinging of the Pope.
1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 64 Solomon also opprest the people so,..as it obstacled his son Rehoboams Kinging.
a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1716) 95 Till once again he fell to Kinging, And then he got a Rope to swing in.
1903 E. K. Chambers Mediæval Stage II. xxiii. 170 The rapid kingings and unkingings of the wars of the Roses left little time and little heart for pageantries.
1918 Railroad Trainman Sept. 675/1 He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility.
1997 R. A. Braunmuller in W. Shakespeare Macbeth Introd. 24 One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth.
2015 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 Apr. 22 A very droll Louis XIV, who likes to take a turn through the palace grounds and throw off his wig after a long morning's kinging.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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