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Definition of Kingmakers
1. kingmaker [n] - See also: kingmaker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kingmakers
Literary usage of Kingmakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Turks in India: Critical Chapters on the Administration of that Country by Henry George Keene (1879)
"The kingmakers on their part either did not perceive this, or, perceiving it,
lacked the means of counteraction: hence, their enemies were able to separate ..."
2. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1904)
"... most pertinacious of kingmakers, saw no reason to despair. He remonstrated
earnestly with Montague, who had announced an intention of retir- 1 Fleetwood ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1834)
"After explaining and ridiculing the doubts of his fellow kingmakers whether they
should call their creature Louis XIX. or Philippe VII., ..."
4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"In the first stage, the lords of Paris directly disputed the crown with the heirs
of Charles ; in the second, they preferred the position of kingmakers to ..."
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