nonce-wd. [f. *kingy (like doggy, horsy) + -NESS.] The quality of being ‘the king.’
a. 1849. H. Coleridge, Ess. (1851), II. 159–60. There is an intense kinginess about the elder Harry [Shakspeare’s 2 Hen. IV.] which takes from our sympathies with his sufferings.
