discrown

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Mine am I No more: mine own in no wise now, but his To save or slay, to cherish or cast out, Crown and discrown, abase and comfort.

From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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 Lowell, James Russell

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

Perhaps you think that a small sovereign people, fresh from two triumphant wars, ought to discrown itself before sunrise; because the nephew of a neighbouring Emperor has been shot by his own subjects.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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 Macleod, Fiona