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nonking en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + king.

Meanings

1. One who, or that which, is not a king.
   • A babatangan is a nonking whose future kingship was predicted by a priest... 2006, Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography, page 96:
   • Similarly, for each of the other draws, the probability of a nonking is 12/13. 1983, Edwin Arthur Maxwell, Introduction to statistical thinking, page 161:
   • In short, the oath was more than anything a way of uniting Creoles and Spaniards of all political stripes under one banner; no one objected to swearing allegiance to a nonking. 1993, Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina, page 22:

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