Kingship for him had no sanctity save in so far as it was truly kingly.
To destroy the false kingship would open the way for the true.
It opens at a time when the oaths of Henry Bolingbroke, to do justice, have been broken on all sides, lest the injustice of his assumption of kingship should be recognised and punished by those over whom he usurps power.
It is unnatural that Lear should give his kingship to women, and that he should curse his youngest child.
After all, like all kingship, my kingship is Belief.
My kingship, my headlong foolish kingshipwill not last a night.
I know how great this kingship of mine is," he said haltingly.
In France, more conspicuously than in England, kingshipbroke down in that century.
Those dull kings who finished kingship in Europe possessed but one trait which we usually associate with the kingly character--pride--and this was the single point of resemblance between Louis XV.
Well, Martin, it will be all up with your Whitsun Kingship immediately.
Recollect that at a quarter to four your Whitsun Kingship ceases!
But thy Whitsun Kingship has cost the town a pretty penny.
At the end of twelve months your Whitsun Kingship will be over, you will doff your genteel mummery, and become the leader of my heydukes.
Better is Conchobar whose man he is, [2]Conchobar who holds the kingship of the province.
And they said it was Fergus, inasmuch as the expedition was an obligatory one with him, for it was he that had been seven years in the kingship of Ulster.
The conclusion is, that wherever the attributes of kingship are found, that of mortality is found also.
They had acknowledged Napoleon in the capacity of First Consul, but they shuddered at the consequences to the human race of having an Emperor sprung upon them whose glory was putting kingship into obscurity.
The same human spirit is visible in the delineation of the Grail Kingship as the type of the highest good.
The Divine kingship made it impossible that the higher minds should be content with the low aims of the opportunists of their day, whether these were of the multitude or not.
Wherever it attempted to interfere with tribal or family rights, danger to the kingship of the most acute kind would be sure to arise.
Obviously this must refer to times like those of Omri, when the Israelite kingship was in its first youthful energy, and was extending conquest on every hand.
But it was an older and much more radical constituent in the polity of Israel than we have seen the kingship to be.
All that is mentioned there, consequently, is part of the evil the kingship would bring with it, and cannot in any way be regarded as a legal provision for the maintenance of royalty.
With the rise of the kingship the courts received further organisation.
It is impossible that these various lines of inquiry should converge, as they have done, towards the early centuries of the kingship as the date of JE, if Moses had written Deuteronomy, in which JE is drawn upon at every moment.
The priesthood naturally follows the kingship in the regulations regarding the position of the governing classes.
We may consequently conclude that the judicial arrangements to which Deuteronomy alludes existed only after the Israelite kingship had been for some time established at Jerusalem.
That is the representation of the Books of Samuel; and the absence of any similar law from the codes before Deuteronomy confirms the view that the earthly kingship was not an essential part of the polity of Israel, but a mere episode.
He will be throughout long ages An hundred years in fair kingship Moninnan, the son of Ler Will be his father, his tutor.
Mongan seized the kingship of Ulster, and the little cleric who had done the reason was Manannan the great and mighty.
He soon returned to Sparta to mature plans for overthrowing the hereditary kingship and substituting an elective monarchy open to all Heraclids, or even, according to another version, to all Spartiates.
In rebellious ages, when kingship itself seems dead and abolished, Cromwell and Napoleon step forth again as kings.
The old ages are brought back to us; the manner in which kings were made, and kingship itself first took rise, is again exhibited in the history of these two.
It was only after a bitter experience that the kingship was no longer regarded as a divine gift, and traditions have been revised in order to illustrate the opposition to secular authority.
The long scenes with Pilate culminate in the great sayings concerning His kingdom not being of this world and the object of this His coming being to bear witness to the truth, thus explaining how, though affirming kingship (Mark xv.
Let him settle his kingship with Hubba and Halfden.
Four degrees of kingshipare spoken of in the Sagas, the highest being the overlord, to whom the lesser kings paid tribute.
The kingshipof the wren which is accepted throughout Europe, and which dates some way back in history, in some of these chants is connected with the kingship of the man who was engaged in the hunt.
Thus thekingship of the wren extended to the four-footed as well as to the feathered tribes.
In all these stories the wren is described not as a cock-bird, but as a hen-bird, which is incompatible with the idea of kingship that is expressed by the bird-chants.
Perhaps the idea of the kingship is the older one.
And yet again as it lay not far from David’s birthplace, Jebus provided for the preservation of David’s kingship and of that connection with the tribe of Judah which was to a certain extent indispensable.
He thought more of the rights and pleasures of kingship than of his high duties and tasks.
David could not then possibly rest content with the acquisition of the kingship over all Israel, and the overthrow of the Philistines.
This so-called "defenestration" of Ferdinand's representatives was followed by the proclamation of the dethronement of the Habsburgs in Bohemia and the election to the kingship of Frederick, the Calvinistic Elector Palatine.
His own ideal of kingship was a paternal despotism, and his ambition, to use most advantageously the limited resources of his country in order to render Prussia feared and respected abroad.
In this respect, most of the French reformers thought they were imitating the British government, but as a matter of fact they made the kingship not even ornamental.
They were slain in petty quarrels, and it is ever in my mind that it was in judgment on them for treating with Streone the traitor in the days when Cnut had not yet taken the kingship and rule into his own hands.
Then he spoke of the spread of the Faith in Norway, and how that he would be the one who should finish what Olaf Tryggvesson, his cousin, had begun; and one might see that he longed for power and kingship only for that work.
The earl tells me that he has heard that Cnut will offer Olaf some under-kingship if he will take his part," I said.
But what if Cnut offered Olaf the under-kingship of Norway, or Northumbria say, if he would go over to his side?
Honey and kingship and worship and safety for aye!
Honey and kingship and worship and safety for aye.
Kings of, early history of, decay ofKingship in, on accession of Louis XVI.
With face of hope turned now on the Legislative Assembly, and now on Austria and Coblentz, and round generally on the Chapter of Chances, an ancient Kingship is reeling and spinning, one knows not whitherward, on the flood of things.
Kingship is a coat; the grand loss is of the skin.
Grant also that if the French Kingship had not, by course of Nature, long to live, he of all men was the man to accelerate Nature.
Thereafter Ingcél went into Alba, and received the kingship after his father, since he had taken home triumph over a king of another country.
For a young, generous king like me to be in the kingship is no disgrace, since the binding of Tara's pledges is mine by right of father and grandsire.
After the death of Hygelac, Beowulf succeeds to the kingship of the Geatas, whom he rules well and prosperously for many years.
Nevertheless, English kingship still remained a mere military office, and consolidation, in our modern sense, was clearly impossible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kingship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
