Kinglet vs Kingling - What's the difference?
kinglet | kingling |
A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory.
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* 1951 , (Isaac Asimov), publication), part V, chapter 10, pages 160–161:
A bird of the crest family (Regulidae).
As nouns the difference between kinglet and kingling
is that kinglet is a petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory while kingling is a kinglet; a petty king or ruler.kinglet
English
Noun
(en noun)- Cæsar'' termeth all the Lords, which in his time had justice in ''France , to be Kinglets [tr. (reguli)], or pettie Kings.
- “My son hears tales. In the viceroy’s personal entourage, one could scarcely help it. And he tells me of them. Our new viceroy would not refuse the Crown if offered, but he guards his line of retreat. There are stories that, failing Imperial heights, he plans to carve out a new Empire in the Barbarian hinterland. It is said, but I don’t vouch for this, that he has already given one of his daughters as wife to a Kinglet somewhere in the uncharted Periphery.”