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

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

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

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

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

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

Strange, that this house should have been the death-place of the unthroned heiress of England, and, forty years afterwards, of the dethroned crafty old French king, Louis Philippe.

From Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men by Eliezer Edwards

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

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 Frederic Rowland Marvin

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