antiking
nounEtymology From anti- + king. Calque of German Gegenkönig.
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Government, Politics One who declares himself king in opposition to a reigning monarch, especially in an electoral monarchy.
- 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 1077.2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 58:
- Related terms
- antiemperor, antipope