Meanings
plural nonkings
- One who, or that which, is not a king.
A babatangan is a nonking whose future kingship was predicted by a priest...
2006, Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography, page 962 more examples
Similarly, for each of the other draws, the probability of a nonking is 12/13.
1983, Edwin Arthur Maxwell, Introduction to statistical thinking, page 161In short, the oath was more than anything a way of uniting Creoles and Spaniards of all political stripes under one banner; no one objected to swearing allegiance to a nonking.
1993, Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina, page 22
Origin
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