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Definition of Princelings
1. princeling [n] - See also: princeling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Princelings
Literary usage of Princelings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. U. S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's edited by Christopher Cox (1999)
"These leaders, who owe their positions more to family connections than to their
own merit, are widely known as "princelings."31 Political, military ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The local princelings and monarchs had been growing in culture, wealth and power,
and after Pepi II. an ominous gap in the monuments, pointing to civil war, ..."
3. The Navigable Rhine: The Development of Its Shipping, the Basis of the by Edwin Jones Clapp (1911)
"... an historical review — Before 1492 — After 1492 — Peace of ^Westphalia and
the Rhine — Former views of taxation on traffic—The princelings and the tolls ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
""Your princelings still be flesh and blood, I suppose? ... Why, in our day the
princelings had their whipping-boys, that took their punishment for 'em when ..."
5. History of India by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, Henry Miers Elliot, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Vincent Arthur Smith, Stanley Lane-Poole, Sir William Wilson Hunter, Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (1906)
"... the Indian borderland was parcelled out among a crowd of Greek princelings,
for the most part related either to the family of Euthydemos and Demetrios ..."
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