discrown
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of discrown
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He will then proceed to plunder and discrown the very kings that had assisted him in erecting his colossal power.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
Perhaps you think that a small sovereign people, fresh from two triumphant wars, ought to discrown itself before sunrise; because the nephew of a neighbouring Emperor has been shot by his own subjects.
From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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
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
“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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
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