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 William Sleeman
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
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
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
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
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
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