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atheling

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ath·e·ling  (th-lng, -)
n.
An Anglo-Saxon nobleman or prince, especially the heir to a throne.
[Middle English, from Old English ætheling.]
atheling [ˈæθɪlɪŋ]
n
(Historical Terms) (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
[Old English ætheling, from æthelu noble family + -ing3; related to Old High German adaling, Old Norse öthlingr]


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`"--found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown.
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context
which probably had been thought to give the finishing touch to the aristocratic prettiness of the Lady Emmeline Atheling as represented, forty years before, in several Books of Beauty.
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