antiking
English
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Etymology
From anti- + king, a calque of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Gegenkönig.
Noun
antiking (plural antikings)
- (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.
- 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 58:
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Translations
one who declares himself king in opposition to a reigning monarch
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