overking


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overking

(ˈəʊvəˌkɪŋ)
n
(Peoples) a supreme king
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They were hit ead-on by the hen 19-year-old oparan, who was overking at 70mph on a 0mph road when he mashed into Cerys's arents' car.
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Higham thus emphasizes the growing ambition of the overking rather than the persistent missionary activity of the Church as the decisive force in the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England.
The author's study focuses on the reigns of those kings--Aethelberht of Kent, and the Northumbrian Kings Edwin of Deira and Oswald and Oswin of the Bernician royal house--whom Bede terms in his Historia Ecclesiastica as "overkings," in order to reveal the context in which those powerful rulers accepted conversion or otherwise patronized the early Christian church.
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