discrown
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of discrown
Example Sentences
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“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
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
Canst thou love one Who did discrown thine husband, unqueen thee?
From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
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
Consider this, Maria, Nor wantonly discrown that sacred head Of your young love to wreathe some curled boy's brow.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma
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