enthrone
verb (used with object)
to place on or as on a throne.
has enthroned
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present perfectof enthrone (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Du Pont has enthroned research and development and staked its future on it: $255 million was spent on it last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
O vain endeavour, If on his own high will, a willing slave, He has enthroned the oppression and the oppressor!
From How to Observe Morals and Manners by Martineau, Harriet
The last will doubtless come; for when the fiend jealousy has enthroned itself in a man's heart, the most common-place actions may be construed into guilty concessions.
From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
With one hand she has enthroned Reason, with the other she has re-established and sustained the pope.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William
He is not on trial, and He asks no question as to what man thinks of the book which has enthroned Him in literature.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Kleiser, Grenville
