high king

plural high kings · alternative high-king · alternative highking

1. A chief king or ruler; a great, superior, or supreme king; a king of kings.

   […] And health to thee, O high-king, after I am gone, and to all the nobles of the Greeks.

   2012, Togail na Tebe: The Thebaid of Statius - Page 281

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   […] is eighth in descent from Aedh Slaine, Highking of Ireland, in the Southern Uí Néill pedigrees.

   1950, The Journal of Celtic studies - Volume 1 - Page 80

   Idris, the first High King, had silvery eyes in a face lined with years of bright laughter and unspeakable sorrow.

   2012, Holly Taylor, Dreamer's Cycle Series

   This time it was Roderic O'Connor, the high-king of all Ireland, with sixty thousand men levied from all the clans of the island. They encamped around Dublin in four separate bodies – the high-king and his men of Connaught at Castle Knock; [...]

   2012, Charles Oman, A History of the Art of War

alternative high-king · alternative highking

1. capitalizedoftenThe king of kings: God; often, Jesus Christ.