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Definition of Kingmaker

1. Noun. English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471).

2. Noun. An important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence. "The Earl of Warwick was the first kingmaker"

Definition of Kingmaker

1. Noun. Someone who helps making a leader a force to reckon with, without having any desire for the position themselves. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kingmaker

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Kingmaker

kingklips kingle kingles kingless kinglet kinglets kinglier kingliest kinglihood kinglike

kingliness kinglinesses kingling kinglings kingly kingmaker (current term) kingmakers kingmaking kingpin kingpins

kingpost kingposts kingric kings kings' ransoms kings of six kings of spades kings of the doos kings of the hill kingship

Literary usage of Kingmaker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"For the kingmaker, the man who for ten years was the first subject of the English Crown, and whose figure looms out with a vague grandeur even through the ..."

2. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor (1898)
"WARWICK THE kingmaker. BY CHARLES W. OMAN. THE SOIL FROM WHICH THE WARS OF THE ... But for the kingmaker, the man who for ten years was the first subject of ..."

3. The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933 by William Harvey Maehl (1986)
"... which had nourished Nazism, was over. Presumably soon there would be an exodus of members from the NSDAP. 6. The "kingmaker" Emerges from ..."

4. In Thamseland: Being the Gossiping Record of Rambles Through England from by Henry Wellington Wack (1906)
"... kingmaker — General Owen Williams of Temple House — All Saints Church, its Historic Tombs. The ale dispensed by mine host of "Ye Olde Bell" at Hurley is ..."

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