Dictionary

archprince en · NOUN

Etymology

From arch- + prince.

Meanings

1. (dated, historical, rare) A prince of an especially high rank.
   • Another postwar option discussed by the Austrians and viewed unfavorably by the Germans was the Hetman throne going to a member of the Habsburg house, in particular to Archprince Wilhelm. 2007, Mark von Hagen, “The German Occupation of Ukraine 1918”, in War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914–1918 (Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia), Seattle, Wash.: Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, University of Washington, →ISBN, page 88:
   • [Y]ea vſed only for a pretence and color to inſinuate into the magnifienge off that magnificall ſeigneorie and Archipiſcopall territorie off Canterburye / and by all means poſsible to vante the preheminenece / and ſupereminence off that princely Archpaſtor and paſtorall Archprince / the firſte father and Peter (as I maye ſaye) off which ſuccceſsion / be maketh that ſuperſtitious monke / and wicked man / Romiſhe Auſten. 1574, [John Stubbs?], transl., “To the Christian Reader / Peace in Chrsite / and Warre with Antechriſte”, in The Life off the 70. Archbishopp off Canterbury Presentlye Sittinge […], [Zurich]: [Christoph Froschauer?], →OCLC, signature [C vj], verso:
   • He was not always Satan and Diabolos, but Lucifer, the “anointed cherub.” There are indications that the global desolation described in Genesis i. 2 was consequent upon the vain infidelity and insurrection of this archprince among the angels. 1986 December 26, J[ames] Sidlow Baxter, “The Resurrection”, in Explore the Book: A Survey and Study of Each Book from Genesis to Revelation Complete in One Volume!, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, published 2010, →ISBN:
   • O’Laignen, archprince of Uriell; Connor O’Bryan, prince of the Eonnought of Cashell; Donnell mac Tiernan, prince of the Brenie; and Kearnaghan Gott O’Melaughlyn, young prince of Meath, were all killed this year. 1849, John O’Donovan, Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland. […], Dublin: [s.n.], →OCLC, footnote q, page 913, columns 1–2:
   • But while Belgium’s present King Baudouin is shown as descended from Wladyslaw’s grandson, Karol, archprince of Austria, Britain’s monarch is shown as descended from his granddaughter, Archprincess Maria. 1973 July 1, Trevor Wood, “Polish King of 13th Century an Ancestor of Elizabeth?”, in The Daily Colonist, home edition, 115th year, number 170, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 5:
   • ‘One can hardly grasp the enormity of it,’ begins the front page article of the Reichspost for Monday 29 June 1914, beneath the headline ‘Heir to the Throne and his Wife Murdered’, ‘our archprince and heir to the throne, the man in whom the peoples of the Habsburg empire entrusted all their hopes, indeed their whole future, is no more.’ 2013, Nick Thorpe, “Danube Fairytales”, in The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 228:
   • A pistol at his head, then the archprince / Lucifer saw his flight, dilating up / With passion doubly pang’d such flight to see; […] 1853, Thomas Hawkins, book III, in The Christiad, London: […] Shaw and Sons, →OCLC, page 102:
   • The steward from the folds of his garment produced a metal card and handed it to Park, who read from it the prayer for the archprince and his house. 1932, John Gray, Park—a Fantastic Story, Aylesford, Kent: Saint Albert’s Press, published 1966, →OCLC, page 91:
   • [S]he [the Queen] calls me back: ‘And tell her to make a pâté, we might be having the archprince to lunch.’ 1993, Elizabeth Fallaize, “Chantal Chawaf”, in French Women’s Writing: Recent Fiction (Women in Society), Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 64:

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