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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among other things, kingship functioned as a kind of conduit through which man was linked to his gods.
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Ecgberht may have received wide support in Kent and can not necessarily be regarded as wholly dependent on Offa for his kingship .
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Ever fair-spoken, Malekith said that he desired the kingship not for himself but in honour of the memory of his father.
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Joseph's view of kingship had no particular originality.
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The innovative character of Capetian kingship is unmistakable.
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The principle of sacred kingship continues well into later Western history.
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The robe is a richly patterned 7-by-10-foot cotton cloth whose abstract symbols represent the powers and obligations of kingship .
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Together Mummolus and Desiderius elevated Gundovald to the kingship at Brives-la-Gaillarde.