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unˈking, v.
[un-2 6 b. Cf. MDu. ontconingen, Du. ontkoningen, G. entkönigen.]
1. trans. To deprive of the position of king; to depose from sovereignty. (Common in 17th c.)
1578Paradise Dainty Devices L ij, Such toile do thei sustain, That often tymes God thei wishe, to be unkyngde again. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iv, That very word Unkings me quite, makes me vile passions slave. 1684E. Pelling Serm. 30 Jan. 20 They may crown them or unking them as they think fit. 1711Pol. Ballads (1860) II. 100 These men do design To un-king the Queen and keep out the Right Line. 1784Cowper in Hayley Life (1809) II. 158 Government therefore is bound to interfere, and to un-king these tyrants. 1815Q. Rev. XIII. 489 Having..escaped unhanged when they were unkinged, they started up again to perform the part of princes in the new revolutionary drama. 1870Lowell Study Wind. (1871) 216 Some passion which the churchyard smothered while the Stuarts were yet unkinged.
fig.1638Suckling Aglaura i. i, There was with me fresh Rebellion, And reason was almost unking'd agen. 1731Gentl. Mag. I. 168 The comic muse Unkings your Cupid, or obstructs his views. 1818Milman Samor v. 463 Thou..hast unking'd Thy stately soul within the wreathing arms Of that fair Saxon.
absol.1644Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings 3 [That] the Pope..by this indirect power..may King and unking at his pleasure. 1646Bp. Maxwell Burd. Issach. 18 Every individual Person is..to punish, to dethrone, to un-King, to kill, &c.
b. refl. To divest (oneself) of royal status or character; to abdicate.
1647N. Ward Simple Cobler 54, I would honour their very heeles, that would..teach me..to king it better, when they saw me unkinging myselfe and kingdome. 1689Advantages of Present Settlement 22 If a king..ruine his people..he so far Unkings himself. 1700J. Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 794 [King John] thereby..Unking'd himself. 1859J. Marshall Hist. Scott. Eccl. & Civ. Affairs 290 Charles's concessions had been in vain. He had unkinged himself.
2. To deprive (a country) of a king.
1647Old Ballads (Percy Soc.) 86 They may thus..Un-king our state, un-church us too. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. v. i. 437 A wife's dishonour unking'd Rome for ever. 1883Harper's Mag. June 139/1 An empire, unkinged to-night, sees to-morrow a new king. |
