enthrone
Americanverb (used with object)
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to place on or as on a throne.
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to invest with sovereign or episcopal authority.
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to exalt.
verb
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to place on a throne
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to honour or exalt
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to assign authority to
Other Word Forms
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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enthronesimple
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enthronessimple
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have enthronedperfect
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has enthronedperfect
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am enthroningprogressive
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are enthroningprogressive
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is enthroningprogressive
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have been enthroningperfect progressive
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has been enthroningperfect progressive
Past
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enthronedsimple
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had enthronedperfect
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was enthroningprogressive
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were enthroningprogressive
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had been enthroningperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of enthrone
Example Sentences
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The fund helped steady the finances of war-ravaged Europe, enthrone the dollar as the international currency and shore up U.S. allies from Britain to Korea.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2017
And the knights launched a revolt to enthrone the son of one of them, 20-year-old Stanislas Parvulesco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2015
To depose the rule of force, and to enthrone the rule of law in the disposition of international differences is imperative .
From Time Magazine Archive
One such arrangement might be to enthrone Khalid, but give the real control to a younger, more dynamic man.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Even if Illyrio is the friend you think him," the knight said stubbornly, "he is not powerful enough to enthrone you by himself, no more than he could your brother."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Von Stuck delights in contrasts: On the “Orpheus wall,” he enthrones the mythical lyre-player above tamed animals in an architectural fresco based on Pompeian murals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Karole Armitage's choreography also keeps the joint jumping and Scott Pask's design ironically enthrones the excellent band in a vast military truck.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2010
How it strives weakly in the child, is loosed In manhood, clogged by sickness, back compelled By age and waste, set free at last by death: Why is it, flesh enthralls it or enthrones?
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram
And, most significant of all, these are the world-wide examples that the college man enthrones in the empire of his thoughts.
From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Weston, Stephen Francis
It is not the Mind of Spirit; for spiritualization of thought destroys all sense of matter as substance, Life, or intelligence, and enthrones God in the eternal qualities of His being.
From Unity of Good by Eddy, Mary Baker
A former nurse made history Wednesday when she was enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the centuries-old mother church of the world's 85 million-strong Anglican community.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
While such preparatory drawings often focused on the figures alone, Filippino devotes equal attention to the architectural setting, in this case an open loggia on which the saint is enthroned and surrounded by angels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Prolific sculptor Frederick William Sievers shows a seated Maury enthroned like Zeus before a globe held aloft by swarming figures representing the forces of air and water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
Channel 4 News said Bishop John, who was enthroned Bishop of Liverpool in 2023, was interviewed voluntarily under caution by police in March last year.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025
But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
As the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner once said, “Our country, be she right or wrong: a sentiment dethroning God and enthroning the devil.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2017
Soon we shall repair our fault of not preventing the carrying off of our King by enthroning his son.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides his plays and satirical romances he wrote the first modern history of philosophy, enthroning Reason after severe skirmishes with the Church and two emperors.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are close to the city fine bits of landscape, where the fields dip gracefully into fertile basins, and rise in swells of tilled fields and orchard to some knoll, enthroning a porticoed home.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred
Above the enthroning threat The mouth's mould testifies of voice and kiss, The shadowed eyes remember and foresee.
From Master of the Vineyard by Reed, Myrtle
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