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Definition of unking in English: unkingverb ʌnˈkɪŋˌənˈkiNG [with object]archaic Remove (a monarch) from power. Example sentencesExamples - Richard unkings himself, handing the crown to Bolingbroke; he breaks a mirror as sign of his loss of identity.
- Charles I was beheaded by Parliament on January 30, 1649, but he was unkinged by his own actions long before that.
- For said Finwë, While the ban lasts upon Fëanor my son, that he may not go to Tuna, I hold myself unkinged, and will not meet my people, nor those that rule in my stead.
- Not the people; because royalists say, they neither can give nor take away royal dignity, and so they cannot unking him.
- The king is always presumed to be present in his courts, holding out the law to his subjects; and when he shuts his courts, he unkings himself in the most essential point.
Definition of unking in US English: unkingverbˌənˈkiNG [with object]archaic Remove (a monarch) from power. Example sentencesExamples - Not the people; because royalists say, they neither can give nor take away royal dignity, and so they cannot unking him.
- Richard unkings himself, handing the crown to Bolingbroke; he breaks a mirror as sign of his loss of identity.
- The king is always presumed to be present in his courts, holding out the law to his subjects; and when he shuts his courts, he unkings himself in the most essential point.
- Charles I was beheaded by Parliament on January 30, 1649, but he was unkinged by his own actions long before that.
- For said Finwë, While the ban lasts upon Fëanor my son, that he may not go to Tuna, I hold myself unkinged, and will not meet my people, nor those that rule in my stead.
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