unthrone

American  

[uhn-throhn] / ʌnˈθroʊn /

verb (used with object)

unthroned, unthroning

1. to dethrone or remove as if by dethroning.

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unthrone British  

/ ʌnˈθrəʊn /

verb

1. (tr) a less common word for dethrone

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Etymology

Origin of unthrone

First recorded in 1605–15; un- ² + throne

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Example Sentences

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unthrone unthroned

Him to unthrone we then May hope, when everlasting Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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 Thomas Stanley

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 William Sleeman

Today unthroned royalty from other lands are a franc a dozen in the haunts of Paris' international set.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

She was unthroned, and like an uncrowned queen she sighed over the remembrance of her former royalty.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

There is ice at both poles, north and south—all extremes are the same—misery belongs to the highest and the lowest only,—to the emperor and Pg 24the beggar, when unsixpenced and unthroned.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

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 Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

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