单词 | kingmaking |
释义 | kingmakingn. The action or an act of appointing a king or (esp. in later use) other person of authority, chiefly by means of political influence. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > appointment in place of another surrogation1533 kingmaking1643 society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > making or being made king kingmaking1643 kinging1644 1643 D. Diggs Rev. Observ. upon His Majesties Late Answers 5 This King (the only instance of peoples King-making, and yet in making of whom the people did only anticipate Gods purposed work) became the instrumentall efficient of their finall destruction. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 295 Coronation, inthroning, is solemnity of King-making, or King-declaring. 1759 W. Harte Hist. Life Gustavus Adolphus I. 154 James I. hated king-making, and had an aversion, as the foreigners tell us, to a drawn sword. 1830 Foreign Q. Rev. 5 692 The assumed patrician power of the allied Ministers in London may address the Greeks in the style of ancient king-making among the Romans. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. Prel. 11 Leofric had the first success in king-making. 1902 A. Duff Theol. & Ethics of Hebrews ii. ii. 77 Now Hosea lays his hand, with sarcastic words, on the evils of which they are proud, their king-makings, their assassinations. 1982 M. Z. Bradley Mists of Avalon i. iv. 53 Is the Council any nearer to their kingmaking? 2014 New Indian Express (Nexis) 17 Aug. Godmen are bad news, especially when they're weaving their webs of deceit, corruption and kingmaking over politics in Mumbai. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). kingmakingadj. That brings about the appointment of a king or (esp. in later use) other person of authority, chiefly by means of political influence; that makes a person king. ΚΠ 1641 T. Aston Remonstr. against Presbitery sig. Fv He challenges to himselfe the sole proprietie of this King-making Jurisdiction, in that he rebukes the Israelites, saying; They have set up a King, but not by mee. 1705 D. Defoe Consolidator 304 What will this King-making old Gentleman, his Father, say, when the young Hero shall tell him, your Majesty has made me a Mock King. 1759 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 47 The great Earl of Warwick in Edward IV.'s time..was styl'd the king-making Earl. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xvii. 11 And is this all the world has gained by thee, Thou first and last of fields! king-making Victory? 1874 F. Espinasse Lancs. Worthies i. 11 King-making Warwick was plotting the restoration of the same Henry VI. whom he had dethroned. 1916 Chinese Students' Monthly Feb. 279 The following description of the king-making election is taken from the Peking Gazette of December 11, 1915. 1979 J. L. Calderwood Metadrama in Shakespeare's Henriad vi. 111 It is in this kingmaking role that Shakespeare..decreed that Henry IV should succeed Richard II. 2015 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 23 Sept. a8 His ability to survive a recall attempt in 2012, won him national notice and the backing of the GOP kingmaking Koch brothers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1643adj.1641 |
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