discrown

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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 Fulton, Justin D.

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)

Macduff, having quarrelled with the king, joined Malcolm, and the English king, thinking favorably of their cause, sent a great army into Scotland to discrown Macbeth.

From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Butterworth, Hezekiah

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

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