How To Use Kingship In A Sentence
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As Milton argues in A Defence of the People of England, kingship originates from the Fall, and kings issue ‘not from blessings but from curses [and] maledictions cast upon fallen mankind’ .
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He should be a man of accomplishments, of unblemished body, presumably of royal kin (peasant-birth is considered a bar to the kingship), usually a son or a nephew, or brother of his foregoer (though no strict rule of succession seems to appear in
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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The title Rex Magnus usually implies kingship over a number of territories, supporting Tacitus.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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Following the division of the Carolingian Empire in 843, the Ottonian rulers united their German kingship with the imperial crown.
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In the 750s, Pepin assumed the kingship of the Franks and introduced a completely new silver coinage, using the Latin term ‘denarius’.
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After James's convenient flight to France, only a minority in the convention parliament so much as expressed scruples about the form in which the transfer of kingship was to take place.
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Confined by illness and death-threats to Whitehall, Cromwell wrestles with Parliament's offer of kingship.
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Thereafter, the Sang Dynasty stopped the struggle for the kingship and never moved the capital again.
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Except for two expeditions to Sicily, where he went at the request of Dionysius to help try to establish a philosophical kingship in Syracuse, he remained in Athens teaching and writing.
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The robe is a richly patterned 7-by-10-foot cotton cloth whose abstract symbols represent the powers and obligations of kingship.
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This is the day that I officially abdicate from my throne and pass the kingship on to my successor.
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Though his kingship was challenged, he continued to rule de facto.
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Often concerned with kingship, dynastic conflicts, and battles, these tales are sometimes also referred to as the king cycle.
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Rather, the essential dynamic for political and governmental action in both realms continued to be kingship, seeking opportunities for the expression of its regality.
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Macbeth cannot contemplate kingship for himself without imagining turning his sword against the king.
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It is an important legal phenomenon and theory that kingship of Medieval Europe was limited.
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The myth behind this depiction is one dear to English hearts, of England as she was before foreign invasion brought kingship and barony in place of the ancient system of wapentakes and hundreds.
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Forceful, dominant, and fertile, the ram is a visual metaphor of kingship.
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The robe is a richly patterned 7-by-10-foot cotton cloth whose abstract symbols represent the powers and obligations of kingship.
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Though his kingship was challenged, he continued to rule de facto.
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Speaking as someone whose grandmothers were both born the subjects of actual ruling monarchs (Kaiser Wilhelm II and Emperor Franz Joseph) of functioning industrialized powers, the notion that European kingship was dependent on state religion or that either were the primary impediment to modernism is dubious in the extreme, and the bit about the priesthood is in Dan Brown territory.
Matthew Yglesias » George Orwell Was a Socialist
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According to Kabbalah, kingship or queenship is the culmination of everything swirling around inside of us.
Levi Ben-Shmuel: Finding Your Inner Royalty
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George Wash - ington turned down the offer of a kingship and chose the presidency instead.
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It may be this burthen will be a man child and inherit the Kingship after me; what sayest thou of this, O Shimas?
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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One of the qualities of kingship was munificence, and generosity was always an important attribute of power.
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They grew excited, and it looked like trouble for a while; but Big Alec asserted his kingship and quelled them.
The King of the Greeks
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This is a Lear who learns too late that kingship is no protection against ordinary mortal suffering.
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When he came out of the Hammam, he donned a rich robe, purfled with gold and embroidered with jewels and jacinths; and, setting the royal crown on his head, sat down on his throne of kingship and ordered the affairs of the folk, doing equal justice between strong and weak, and exacting from the prince the dues of the pauper; wherefore the people loved him with exceeding love.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I use this episode to introduce the opposition between prophetism and kingship as a main feature of the development of biblical law, something which is still apparent in the practice of biblical readings.
Monateri on The Prophetic Nature of Equity
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Though his kingship was challenged, he continued to rule de facto.
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Sometimes the head of a hereditary family of poets inaugurated the new chief of their locality by handing him a ‘rod of kingship’ - proclaiming his title aloud before the assembled people.
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But the memories of kingship could not die, and so gave birth to messianic hope.
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Having edited two notable collections on kingship and queenship, Anne Duggan has now logically turned her attention towards the next rank down in the hierarchy.
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He recounts the failure of Yorkist kingship.
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Prince Charlie cam 'hame' to Rome; and the refusal there of even a titular kingship.
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
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Zeth knows he wanted revenge against his sister and the others who would not support his pilfered kingship.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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It is rather striking how often oracles obtrude in one form or another in debates about the kingship at Sparta.
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As for the kingdom, Allah the Most High shall send to it whomso He chooseth, for that I have no longer a desire for the kingship.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Succession dispute is a common feature of all these kingships.
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Although originally a Hindu notion, the idea of darshan became an integral aspect of kingship throughout the subcontinent.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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This concept of the position of the ruler in the cosmic scheme springs from ancient Chinese ideals of sacral kingship and the correspondence between the human realm and the cosmos as symbolized by the mingtang.
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This half-century was the formative period for national kingship.
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And to actually go to what we call a realm, because the queen is head of state of New Zealand and to undertake engagements on behalf of her is the first step in his grooming for kingship.
CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2005
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He changes the notion of kingship by riding on a colt rather than a horse.
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But for all his intellectual gifts, his kingship was essentially pragmatic.
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Inanna's attempts to regain the kingship for Erech does not last.
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The principle of sacred kingship continues well into later Western history.
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Each army is led by a powerful Greek chieftain who aides him in regaining the kingship.
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This, in fact, is one of the many disqualifications for kingship which emerge during his clandestine six weeks in England.
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The principle of divine kingship was maintained even when the king was replaced by rulers drawn from outside the family of the enthroned king.
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These same churchmen had developed tenth-century consecration ceremonies in line with a clear idea of kingship as an office with duties.
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There was one aspect of successful kingship, however, that John had always utterly lacked -- luck.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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The hands of some called for kingship and irresponsible and numerated power; other hands called for ambition, for wealth in untold sums, for disgrace and shame, or for women and wine.
Chapter X
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And the long, jewelled box containing the rod, without roses or leaves, that was the wand of his kingship.
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The crown is an attribute of kingship.
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What mattered about 1066 was that it brought both Norman kingship and French feudalism into England.
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By depicting kings and emperors suffering torments in purgatory, thinly-veiled criticisms were levelled at rulers who did not live up to the model of Christian kingship.
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Kingship from thee, after thy long life; but he shall not order himself towards the lieges after thy fashion; nay, he shall transgress thine ordinances and oppress thy subjects, and there shall befal him what befel the Mouse with the Cat60; and I seek refuge with
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Like the pale reflection of power thus accorded to bondsmen at the Saturnalia was the mock kingship for which freemen cast lots at the same season.
Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity. § 3. The Roman Saturnalia
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To put it in technical language, the succession to the kingship at Rome and probably in Latium generally would seem to have been determined by certain rules which have moulded early society in many parts of the world, namely exogamy, beena marriage, and female kinship or mother-kin.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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There is not much room in the Bible for the notions of amphictyony and divine kingship which modern scholars have tried to introduce into ancient Hebrew thinking.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver.
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
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In one sense this is the equivalent in literature of the tradition of kingship or of tsardom in the national politics: the icon of the country's special version of sovereignty.
Pushkin's Shakespearean Lover
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Horus was the god of kingship; every ruler of Egypt was his incarnation.
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Once again at the level of the overkingship, as opposed to the smaller kingdoms, there was no continuity of existence and association with a particular family.
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In his encyclical letter Quas primas, the Pope showed how laicism or secularism, organizing society without any reference to God, leads to the apostasy of the masses and the ruin of society, because it is a complete denial of Christ's Kingship.
The Reign of Christ the King
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Moses, therefore, remained the sole promulgator and interpreter of the Divine laws, and consequently also the sovereign judge, who could not be arraigned himself, and who acted among the Hebrews the part, of God; in other words, held the sovereign kingship: he alone had the right to consult God, to give the Divine answers to the people, and to see that they were carried out.
Theologico-Political Treatise
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To desire kingship rather than servantship -- the Cockatrice's sin, or deaf Death rather than hearkening Life -- the Adder's sin, -- these are both possible to all the intelligences of the universe.
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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When, after political struggles and a decision to divide the kingdom, Yudhihira lays claim to universal kingship, Duryodhana challenges him to a game of dice.
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He then served on committees to set up a republican government and abolish kingship and the House of Lords.
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Thebes stands for reunion with mother and the attainment of power and Kingship.
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To this dire course of action he was misled by astrologic and other signs, which he interpreted as prophecies of his own kingship, when in reality they pointed to the royal destiny of his granddaughter Bath-sheba.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
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This interest in allying rulership with time and cosmos stands in full accord with the ceremonial and commemorative practices of Maya dynastic kingship.
