different between antipope vs antiking

English

Etymology

From Middle French antipape (later assimilated to anti- +? pope), from Medieval Latin antip?pa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ant?p??p/

Noun

antipope (plural antipopes)

1. (Christianity) A person who claims or claimed to be the pope, usually as the result of a disputed election or deposition, but is not considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the real pope.
   • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 59:

     Meanwhile support for the ‘puppet’ antipope Nicholas V, deprived of his protector and by now excommunicated along with his emperor, rapidly withered away.

Coordinate terms

• antibishop
• pseudocardinal

Translations

See also

• schism

Further reading

• antipope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• anti-king

Etymology

From anti- +? king. Calque of German Gegenkönig.

Noun

antiking (plural antikings)

1. (politics) One who declares himself king in opposition to a reigning monarch.
   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 58:

     The political opposition in Germany carried on regardless, electing Rudolf of Rheinfelden as the first ever anti-king at an assembly in Forchheim on 15 March 1077.

Related terms

• antipope

Translations

Anagrams

• intaking, taking in