nonking

English

Etymology

non- +‎ king

Noun

nonking (plural nonkings)

1. One who, or that which, is not a king.
   • 1983, Edwin Arthur Maxwell, Introduction to statistical thinking, page 161:

     Similarly, for each of the other draws, the probability of a nonking is 12/13.

   • 1993, Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina, page 22:

     In short, the oath was more than anything a way of uniting Creoles and Spaniards of all political stripes under one banner; no one objected to swearing allegiance to a nonking.

   • 2006, Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography, page 96:

     A babatangan is a nonking whose future kingship was predicted by a priest...