Underking vs Underkind - What's the difference?
underking | underkind |
An inferior or subordinate king; a viceroy.
*1987 , David P. Chandler, David Joel Steinberg, In Search of Southeast Asia :
*1995 , N. J. Higham, An English Empire :
*2010 , Mark Del Franco, Face Off :
As nouns the difference between underking and underkind
is that underking is an inferior or subordinate king; a viceroy while underkind is a lower or inferior kind or class; a subordinate.underking
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* (l)Noun
(en noun)- From the Johore capital on the island of Pulau Penyengat in the Riau Archipelago, where Parani's brother became "underking " to a puppet Malay sultan, the Bugis extended their control over the tin negeri of Kedah and Perak, [...]
- Bede himself used it in this context, among others, referring for example to Peada, Penda's son and the underking of the Middle Saxons, as a princeps .
- “I am an advisor in his role as an InterSec director, Lord Guardian, not his counselor as underKing to the Inverni.” Aran made a dismissive gesture with his hand. “A distinction without a difference. [...]”