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Etymology
From Middle English *heah-kyng, from Old English hēahcyning (“high-king; God”), equivalent to high + king.
Noun
high king (plural high kings)
- A chief king or ruler; a great, superior, or supreme king; a king of kings.
- Hyponym: ardri
- 1950, The Journal of Celtic studies - Volume 1 - Page 80:
- is eighth in descent from Aedh Slaine, Highking of Ireland, in the Southern Uí Néill pedigrees.
2012, Holly Taylor, Dreamer's Cycle Series:Idris, the first High King, had silvery eyes in a face lined with years of bright laughter and unspeakable sorrow.
2012, Charles Oman, A History of the Art of War:This time it was Roderic O'Connor, the high-king of all Ireland, with sixty thousand men levied from all the clans of the island. They encamped around Dublin in four separate bodies – the high-king and his men of Connaught at Castle Knock; [...]
- 2012, Togail na Tebe: The Thebaid of Statius - Page 281:
- " And health to thee, O high-king, after I am gone, and to all the nobles of the Greeks.”
- (often capitalised) God.
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