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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of discrown.

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Examples

  • The young imperial Maiden of Fifteen has now become a worn discrowned Widow of Thirty-eight; grey before her time: this is the last Procession: 'Few minutes after the Trial ended, the drums were beating to arms in all Sections; at sunrise the armed force was on foot, cannons getting placed at the extremities of the Bridges, in the Squares, Crossways, all along from the Palais de Justice to the Place de la Révolution.

    "Trial of Marie-Antoinette." by Thomas Carlyle de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • The young imperial Maiden of Fifteen has now become a worn discrowned Widow of Thirty-eight; grey before her time: this is the last Procession: 'Few minutes after the Trial ended, the drums were beating to arms in all Sections; at sunrise the armed force was on foot, cannons getting placed at the extremities of the Bridges, in the Squares, Crossways, all along from the Palais de Justice to the Place de la Révolution.

    Archive 2007-08-19 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Justice, discrowned by the hand of violence, exclaims in tones of deep solemnity, HIS WILL BE DONE!

    Garrison against the Tyrants 2006

  • Devils gathered their legions in his sight: their dim, discrowned, and tarnished armies passed rank and file before him.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • It was a place that through the rest of the year was haunted with the shadowy memories of old kings and queens, unhappy, discrowned, imprisoned; but today all those shadows had fled, and not a soul in the vast hall felt the presence of any but a living sorrow, which was quivering in warm hearts.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • The vessel labouring very much in a heavy sea, had not a stitch of canvass on her, and her bare mast tapered into the air like a cocoa-nut tree that had been discrowned.

    A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

  • 'T is like a discrowned queen, for her jointure is small, and she is now no more consequence to his party, so his death has struck away her worldly glory at a blow.

    The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

  • She gave a sharp glance in the direction of the oak, and the now discrowned girl was quickly at her side.

    The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century Anonymous

  • Three years later the wanderings of the unfortunate family recommenced; the Emperor Francis II. was dead, and his successor, Ferdinand, must visit Prague to be crowned, and Charles X. feared that the presence of a discrowned monarch might be embarrassing on such an occasion.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • His words come vividly to mind in reviewing the curious catalogue which a European statistician lately furnished of the number of sovereigns who have perished by violent deaths or been discrowned by disaster.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

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