Meaning of woman king | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of queen regnant (“a female monarch, particularly in a monarchy in which she holds the title of king”)

Examples

“Hence one looks in vain for the unusual reign of the woman king Hatshepsut or the “criminal” heretic Akhenaten and other kings associated with the Amarna interlude.”

“The author of Tarikh-I-Shahi wrote a book on the customs and the sovereignty of a woman king called Qutlugh Tarkan.”

“that they were "glad to hear the sun shined in England since king William's death;" that they wondered the English should have a Squaw Sachem, a woman king, that they "hoped she would be a good mother, and send some to teach them religion, as well as traffic"”

“When a reward is offered to him who betrays his friend to death, when the price of sold life is honourably paid from the woman king's treasury, is it not her counsellors who are authors of the crime!”

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