discrown
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of discrown
Example Sentences
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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 Fiona Macleod
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 Emma Lazarus
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 Stefan Zweig
Canst thou love one Who did discrown thine husband, unqueen thee?
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
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 James Russell Lowell
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