unthrone
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of unthrone
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Something must be done to unthrone these wretches, or things will be worse and worse.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William
Yet no new sufferings can prepare A higher praise to crown thee; Though my first death proclaim thee fair, My second will unthrone thee.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Him to unthrone we then May hope, when everlasting Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
Yet no new sufferings can prepare A higher praise to crown thee;10 Though my first death proclaim thee fair, My second will unthrone thee.
From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Stanley, Thomas
But once he was unthroned by Buster Douglas in a humiliating upset early last year, Tyson was not only revealed as mortal but also held to mortals' rules.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today unthroned royalty from other lands are a franc a dozen in the haunts of Paris' international set.
From Time Magazine Archive
O God unthroned, Lone exile from the faith you owned, No priest to bring you sacrifice, No censer with its breath of spice, No land to mourn your funeral pyre.
From The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems by Shorter, Dora Sigerson
As raiment by another worn, As faded garland crushed and torn, So is, unthroned, the proudest king, Though mighty once, a useless thing.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Cried the African monarch, the splendid, As down to his death in the hollow Dark dungeons of Rome he descended, Uncrowned, unthroned, unattended; How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland
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