1805,Sharon Turner, “The King’s Election and Coronation”, inThe History of the Manners, Landed Property, Government, Laws, Poetry, Literature, Religion, and Language, of the Anglo-Saxons, “The Government of the Anglo-Saxons”, London:[…]Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme,[…], page247:
The firſtcynings of the Anglo Saxons ſeem to have been their war-kings, continued for life, and the crown was not hereditary, but elective.
1884,William Brockie, “Preface”, inThe Gypsies of Yetholm: Historical, Traditional, Philological, and Humorous, Kelso: J. & J. H. Rutherfurd,[…], page iii:
To write the history of the numerous Gypsy dynasties in the British Isles, from the somewhat mythical days of Johnnie Faa to the demise of the last of his royal house who claimed and bore the royal title, would be a more difficult task than to trace and verify the genealogy of the pettycynings and bretwaldas of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy up to Hengist, Horsa, and Ida, and thence back to Thor and Odin.
Then Saxoncynings ruled, with various fortune, / Six centuries; ( fighting ofttimes, king against king.)
2010, Steve Mollmann, Michael Schuster, “The Future Begins”, inWhat’s Past (Star Trek: Corps of Engineers),Gallery Books,→ISBN, page176:
According to the public record, a dispute over some action of Iamor’s—Scotty had a good idea what actionthat was—had split the party asunder, meaning no one was able to achieve the majority in the Witenagemot necessary to create a functioning government. Unfortunately, one of the planet’s many provincialcynings had taken advantage of the lull in authority to revive a long-standing grudge with anothercyning, weapons had been fired, and any chance of a unified Kropasar reemerging had died in the ensuing chaos.
When used as a title,cyning is usually placed after the king's name, unlike in modern English. Thus "King Edward" wasĒadweard cyning, not*cyning Ēadweard.
Many compounds which might be expected to containcyning instead use the prefixcyne-(“royal, of a king”).
