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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(chiefly derogatory) A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory..
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.
Cæsar termeth all the Lords, which in his time had justice in France, to be Kinglets [tr. reguli], or pettie Kings.
Use kinglet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Kinglet means (chiefly derogatory) A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory..
Common synonyms include kingling, roitelet, crest.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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