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unking
English
Etymology
un- +? king
Verb
unking (third-person singular simple present unkings, present participle unkinging, simple past and past participle unkinged)
- (archaic) To remove (a king) from power.
- Synonyms: depose, dethrone, discrown, disenthrone, uncrown, unthrone
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]
- God save King Harry, unking’d Richard says,
- And send him many years of sunshine days!
- 1649, John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, London, p. 28,[2]
- […] 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,[3]
- The jesting of his Fool wholly turns upon his unkinging himself and retaining nothing, which Lear minutely attends to,
- 1850, Herman Melville, White-Jacket, Chapter 56,[4]
- “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.”
- (archaic) To deprive (a king) of his royal qualities.
- 1665, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, 1698, Volume 3, “A Sermon Preached At St Mary’s, Oxon. […] Christmas-Day, 1665,” p. 371,[5]
- 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,[6]
- My swelling rage, in privacy I’le shrowd,
- And not un-King my self before the Crowd.
- 1845, James Russell Lowell, Conversations on Some of the Old Poets, Cambridge, MA: John Owen, Third Conversation, p. 215,[7]
- The soul is indifferent what garment she wears, or of what color and texture; the true king is not unkinged by being discrowned.
- 1665, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, 1698, Volume 3, “A Sermon Preached At St Mary’s, Oxon. […] Christmas-Day, 1665,” p. 371,[5]
- (archaic, figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.
- 1638, John Suckling, Aglaura, London: Thomas Walkley, Act I, Scene 1, p. 9,[8]
- —Oh ’tis well y’are come,
- there was within me fresh Rebellion,
- and reason was almost unking’d agen.
- 1638, John Suckling, Aglaura, London: Thomas Walkley, Act I, Scene 1, p. 9,[8]
Coordinate terms
- unqueen
Anagrams
- nuking
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dunking
English
Verb
dunking
- present participle of dunk
Noun
dunking (plural dunkings)
- The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool.
- (basketball) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.
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