1891 January 3, ““King” Wilhelmina”, inThe Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LI, number III, Chicago, Ill., page 5, column 7:
The British Parliament has had made it for it in the past the claim that it could do anything excepting convert a woman into a man.[…]And the high court [of Amsterdam] has done it by deciding that all officials and public servants shall take their oath of allegiance not to Queen Wilhelmina but toKing Wilhelmina.
Hatshepsut was ruling as aking, not queen and she needed to be recognised as such.
2011,Nwando Achebe, “Mgbapu Ahebi: Exile in Igalaland, ca. 1895–1916”, inThe Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe, Bloomington, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.:Indiana University Press,→ISBN, pages63–64:
The act of perforating one’s ears could be read as a gendering performance—a modification from an overt masculinity (king) to a tempered female masculinity (king with female traits)—in which the male king was expected to adopt the quintessence of Omeppa’s femaleking wife, Ebulejonu, and by so doing, embody the true essence of womanhood.[…]Attah-Ebulejonu, like Hatshepsut of Egypt before her, ruled as (and was remembered as) aking, not queen, perhaps setting the precedent for the coronation of another femaleking, Ahebi Ugbabe, about four centuries later.[…]This time, the femaleking would not rule in the Igala kingdom nor would she be of Igala origin. Instead, theking would be an Igbo woman who had lived in Igalaland for many years, who had come of age and matured there and in the process had imbibed the cultural values and mores of the people with whom she had lived in exile.
"I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came[…]and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steelkings and copperkings and oilkings and their heirs and dauphins.[…]"
1995,Paul Vautin,Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page154:
I'd been the dodgem carking at the Brisbane Ekka in 1975 and all those skills can flooding back[.]
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, inThe Economist[1], volume411, number8892, archived fromthe original on9 January 2025:
The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the firstking of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.
2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, inThe Onion A.V. Club[2], archived fromthe original on1 February 2013:
It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as theking of winking self-parody.
2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, inFIDE[3], pages2, 20:
The objective of each player is to place the opponent’sking ‘under attack’ in such a way that the opponent has no legal move.[…] If the arbiter observes bothkings are in check, or a pawn stands on the rank furthest from its starting position, he/she shall wait until the next move is completed.
1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association,South Atlantic Review, Volume 47,page 16,
Thekinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play[…].
2008, William Shakespeare, edited by A. R. Braunmuller,Macbeth, Introduction,page 24:
One narrative is thekinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.
And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idlyking’d, / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.
To perform the duties of a king.
1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,The Railroad Trainman, Volume 35,page 675,
He had to do all hiskinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
2001, Chip R. Bell,Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning,page 6:
Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to conveykinging skills to young Telemachus.
The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks,kinged it from the front seat of the center section.
To promote a piece ofdraughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
1957, Bertram Vivian Bowden, editor,Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines,page302:
If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent fromkinging but only postponed the evil day.
1986, Rick DeMarinis,The Burning Women of Far Cry,page100:
I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to getkinged, but I slid my checker back[…].
2008, Audrey Yue, “King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia”, in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland, editors,AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities,page266:
Through the ex-centric diaspora,kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page96
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