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Webster 1913 Edition


Adeling

Ad′el-ing

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Noun.
Same as
Atheling
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Adeling

AD'ELING

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Noun.
a title of honor given by our Saxon ancestors to the children of princes, and to young nobles. It is composed of adel, or rather athel, the Teutonic term for noble, illustrious, and ling, young posterity.

Definition 2024


adeling

adeling

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Noun

adeling (plural adelings)

  1. a prince, especially an Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir
    1962, Otar, a pleasant and cultured adeling with a tremendous nose and sparse hair, had his two mistresses with him — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

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