enthrone
verb (used with object)
to place on or as on a throne.
had enthroned
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past perfectof enthrone.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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This presentation had lasted for more than three hours, but it had enthroned a new sense of reality in the hearts of those present, a sense of man on earth.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
He hovered around the rocking-chair in which they had enthroned me, and with one hand he kept clutching violently at his throat as though he were suppressing his eloquence by muscular effort.
From The Soldier of the Valley by Nelson Lloyd
They were thus immortalized together: she, whom he had enthroned, he, whom she had crowned.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
I had enthroned you so high, Aline, so high, and yet no higher than your place.
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Napoleon may have impressed himself on the soldier's intellect; he had enthroned himself in his heart.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
