discrown

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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

Where ’twas shrined in my heart I thy image discrown, And from out thy high heaven I hurl thee adown!

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Zweig, Stefan

“Know you not ’tis rank treason to discrown our sacred Majesty, far more to dishevel or destroy our locks? 

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

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