Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of a crown; degrade from the royal dignity; by extension, to reduce from high dignity or preëminence.
- To remove the crown from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone.
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- verb To
deprive of themonarchy
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even many months later, Symeon recalled the dream vividly, the god™s honeyed voice telling him to uncrown.
Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001
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So it is with all the holy things of God: if I dethrone them they will uncrown me.
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett
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Why did Jonathan visit David in the gloomy wood that day and uncrown himself for him?
Sermons on Biblical Characters Clovis G. Chappell
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Yes, Jonathan went into the woods to uncrown himself! to empty himself for his friend!
Sermons on Biblical Characters Clovis G. Chappell
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What fate shall dare uncrown thee from this breast,
The Golden Threshold 1916
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The more we lighten sin the more we uncrown our Redeemer.
The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910
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They had meant to put on King James, for his own good, some gentle force, to punish the Jesuits and renegades who had misled him, to obtain from him some guarantee for the safety of the civil and ecclesiastical institutions of the realm, but not to uncrown and banish him.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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It masters time, it conquers space, it cows that boastful trickster Chance, and bids the tyrant Circumstance uncrown and fill a servant's place.
THROUGH TH3 WALL 2009
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It masters time, it conquers space, it cows that boastful trickster Chance, and bids the tyrant Circumstance uncrown and fill a servant's place.
THROUGH TH3 WALL 2009
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It masters time, it conquers space, it cows that boastful trickster Chance, and bids the tyrant Circumstance uncrown and fill a servant's place.
THROUGH TH3 WALL 2009
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