unking

Example Sentences

• "God save King Harry, unking’d Richard says, And send him many years of sunshine days!"
• "[…] the Scots were a free Nation, made King whom they freely chose, and with the same freedome un-Kingd him if they saw cause, by right of ancient laws and Ceremonies yet remaining,"
• "1754, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 66, 19 January, 1754, in Volume 2, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 85, The jesting of his Fool wholly turns upon his unkinging himself and retaining nothing, which Lear minutely attends to,"
• "“Yes,” cried Jonathan; “that greenhorn, standing there by the Commodore, is sailing under false colours; he's an impostor, I say; he wears my crown.” “[…] I say, Jonathan, my lad, don’t pipe your eye now about the loss of your crown; for, look you, we all wear crowns, from our cradles to our graves, and though in double-darbies in the brig, the Commodore himself can’t unking us.”"
• "But if a Prince shall deign to be familiar and to converse with those upon whom he might trample, shall His condescension therefore Unking Him? And His familiarity rob Him of His Royalty?"
• "1677, Charles Davenant, Circe, London: Richard Tonson, Act III, Scene 6, p. 31, My swelling rage, in privacy I’le shrowd, And not un-King my self before the Crowd."