antiking

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  • anti-king

Etymology

From anti- +‎ king. Calque of German Gegenkönig.

Noun

antiking (plural antikings)

  1. (politics) One who declares himself king in opposition to a reigning monarch, especially in an electoral monarchy.
    • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 58:
      The political opposition in Germany carried on regardless, electing Rudolf of Rheinfelden as the first ever anti-king at an assembly in Forchheim on 15 March 1077.

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