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discrown

[dis-kroun] / dɪsˈkraʊn /


VERB
dethrone
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
crown enthrone put in power


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They did not attempt to put one king in place of another, but to dethrone human nature and discrown the very manhood of the race.

From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell

Canst thou love one Who did discrown thine husband, unqueen thee?

From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

It is their expiation that we make ours: they must go free of us; and when they come again and discrown us, then in love we shall be at one and equal.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod

To discrown and degrade Personality by taking away its two grand prerogatives,—this is his preliminary labor, this is his way of procuring a site for that edifice of scientific history which he proposes to build.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various

Let her be true to her own glorious nature, and this attempt to unsex and discrown her will meet with the swift and terrible condemnation it deserves.

From True Woman, The A Series of Discourses by Justin D. Fulton




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