unkingship
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[edit]unkingship (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The quality or condition of being unkinged; abolition of monarchy.
- 1649 June 9 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 30 May 1649]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
- Unkingship was proclaimed, and his majesty's statues thrown down.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unkingship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)