kingship
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The repeated use of gold imagery only intensifies those concerns because of the symbolism gold carries historically and biblically: kingship, permanence, divinity and power.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
But it is continental kingship the 33-year-old has spent the twilight years of his career chasing.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
In 1415, on the eve of challenging France at the Battle of Agincourt, he agonizes about the moral burdens of kingship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
The defining attribute of a dictatorship, as well as of kingship in its ancient and absolute form, is the assertion that law—its making, interpretation, adjudication, and enforcement—is an emanation of the will of one man.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025
He then declared his independent kingship, sending an army to attack Egypt in concert with the Seleucid king An- tiochus I’s invasion from the east in 274.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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