woman king
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English
Noun
woman king (plural women kings)
- Synonym of queen regnant
- 2015, Jason Thompson, Wonderful Things - A History of Egyptology - Volume 2 - The Golden Age: 1881-1914, American University in Cairo Press, page 16:
- Hence one looks in vain for the unusual reign of the woman king Hatshepsut or the “criminal” heretic Akhenaten and other kings associated with the Amarna interlude.
- 2010 February, Parvin Torkamany Azar, “The Author’s Attitude of the Book “ Tarikh-i-Shahi” on Women Kings”, in Journal of Woman in Culture Arts, volume 1, number 2, 148774:
- The author of Tarikh-I-Shahi wrote a book on the customs and the sovereignty of a woman king called Qutlugh Tarkan.
- 1878, John Stoughton, Religion in England Under Queen Anne and the Georges, 1702-1800, Volume 1, Hodder and Stoughton, page 307:
- that they were "glad to hear the sun shined in England since king William's death;" that they wondered the English should have a Squaw Sachem, a woman king, that they "hoped she would be a good mother, and send some to teach them religion, as well as traffic"
- 1836, Thomas Gaspey, The Self-Condemned, Harper & Brothers, page 334:
- When a reward is offered to him who betrays his friend to death, when the price of sold life is honourably paid from the woman king's treasury, is it not her counsellors who are authors of the crime!