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

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

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

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

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

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)

The master of men and emergencies was unthroned for one time in life.

From The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 by Smith, Z. F. (Zachariah Frederick)