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Kinglet   Listen
noun
Kinglet  n.  
1.
A little king; a weak or insignificant king.
2.
(Zool.) Any one of several species of small singing birds of the genus Regulus and family Sylviidae. Note: The golden-crowned kinglet (Regulus satrapa), and the rubycrowned kinglet (Regulus calendula), are the most common American species. The common English kinglet (Regulus cristatus) is also called golden-crested wren, moonie, and marigold finch. The kinglets are often popularly called wrens, both in America and England.






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"Kinglet" Quotes from Famous Books



... contempt in Agrippa's words, in the very putting side by side of the two things. 'Me! Me,' with a very large capital M—'Me a Christian?' He thinks of his dignity, poor creature. It was not such a very tremendous dignity after all. He was a petty kinglet, permitted by the grace of Rome to live and to pose as if he were the real thing, and yet he struts and claps his wings and crows on his little hillock as if it were a mountain. 'Me a Christian?' 'The great Agrippa a Christian!' And he uses ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren



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